Improvement of Influenza Incidence Estimation Using Auxiliary Information in Sentinel Surveillance in Japan

RESEARCH ARTICLE Improvement of Influenza Incidence Estimation Using Auxiliary Information in Sentinel Surveillance in Japan Miyuki Kawado, Shuji Hashimoto, Akiko Ohta, Mari S. Oba, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Tamano Matsui, Masaki Nagai and Yoshitaka Murakami Department of Hygiene, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan Division of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Saitama Medical University Faculty of Medicine, Saitama, Japan Department of Medical Statistics, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan Department of Clinical Research, National Mie Hospital, Mie, Japan Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan Department of Social Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan