The number of links to and from the starting node as a predictor of epidemic size in small-size directed networks

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 424-432

  Pautasso, Marco ^a   Moslonka Lefebvre, Mathieu ^a,b,c   Jeger, Michael J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Initial conditions; Meta population; Network epidemiology; Plant sciences; Susceptible infected susceptible (SIS); Uncorrelated scale free networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049465210     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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