How Can Data-Mining Be Used to Prevent Epidemics

question 12

Multiple Choice

How can data-mining be used to prevent epidemics?

• A) Data-mining allows us to find immunities to certain diseases by analyzing statistical anomalies.
• B) There may be enough data accessible through data-mining to be able to account for all variables; we may soon be able to predict the future entirely.
• C) Though nothing can fully prevent an epidemic, it allows us to gain a better understanding of the behavior of rapidly spreading diseases.
• D) It involves the monitoring and analysis of a variety of public health indicators that can provide early warning of an unusual outbreak of infectious disease.

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Definitions:

MRC = MRP

An economic condition where a firm's Marginal Resource Cost equals its Marginal Revenue Product, optimizing resource allocation.

Purely Competitive Conditions

Market conditions where many firms compete with identical products, easy market entry and exit, and no single firm can affect the market price.

Resource Demand Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the price of a resource and the quantity of that resource demanded by employers or producers.

Marginal Product

The marginal product is the additional output generated by employing one more unit of a specific input, ceteris paribus. It helps businesses decide on the optimal level of input usage.