Incorporating geographical contacts into social network analysis for contact tracing in epidemiology: A study on Taiwan SARS data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4506 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 23-36

  Chen, Yi Da ^a   Tseng, Chunju ^a   King, Chwan Chuen ^b   Wu, Tsung Shu Joseph ^b   Chen, Hsinchun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contact tracing; Epidemiology; Geographical contacts; Personal contacts; SARS; Social Network Analysis

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CONTACT TRACING; GEOGRAPHICAL CONTACTS; PERSONAL CONTACTS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 37249085083     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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