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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: /publication Inferring Missing Infectious Links: A Case Study using 2003 Beijing SARS Outbreak ata CONFERENCE PAPER · SEPTEMBER 2009 READS 7 1 AUTHOR: Xiaolong Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences 4 PUBLICATIONS 0 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Available from: Xiaolong Zheng Retrieved on: 8 January 20 6 Biosurveillance and Biosecurity, 2009, September 24-25, Taipei, Taiwan Inferring Missing Infectious Links: A Case Study using 2003 Beijing SARS Outbreak Data 1 2,1 2 1 3 1 Xiaolong Zheng , Daniel Zeng , Aaron Sun , Yuan Luo , Quanyi Wang , Feiyue Wang 1 The Key Lab of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 2 Department of Management Information Systems, The University of Arizona, USA 3 Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China Abstract Missing data are a major practical challenge to infectious disease informatics research and practice. In particular, despite the best data collection efforts, information concerning contact-based infections can be significantly under-reported in epidemiological surveys and interviews. In this paper, we experiment with a number of computational techniques to infer missing infectious links, using the 2003 Beijing SARS outbreak data as th