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Acknowledgements

The contents of the book

  • Most content comes from the “EPIET-World”. One important basis is the introductory course of the ECDC Fellowship Programme and specifically the presentations that have been held there by numerous euroopean surveillance experts. * One important source are the publications by ECDC namely the Handbook on evaluating infectious disease surveillance
  • The publications from CDC have been used especially

Usage of images

  • Only images that had a creative commons were used (except the pictures from Bing Image Creator). The authors of the work are written underneath each picture.
  • The primary source of images is Mediawiki the image storing space of Wikipedia the greates project of the internet.

Coding and publishing of the book

This book builds upon the wonderful software of quarto, that itself uses many open source software projects. One important basis is R and Git. This book is published on github.

Usage of artificial intelligence

  • ChatGPT has been used to polish the text and help with the wording. It has neither been used to generate content or to structure the book or a text. ChatGPT has also been used to code - especially the stages graph.
  • Bing Image Creator has been used to create images