vailable previous seasons.
Significant weeks are defined as those with a case count that has a
significant positive growth rate.</p>
<p>To capture short-term changes and fluctuations in the cases, a
rolling window of size <span class="math inline">\(k = 5\)</span> is
used to create subsets of the cases for model fitting, and the
<code>quasipoisson</code> family is used to account for
overdispersion.</p>
<p>The disease-specific threshold will be estimated with the four
available previous seasons. The <code><