Estimating within-household contact networks from egocentric data

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1816-1838

  Potter, Gail E ^a   Handcock, Mark S ^a   Longini, Ira M ^a   Elizabeth Halloran, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact networks; Epidemic model; Graphs; Latent variable; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869465304     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOAS474     Document Type: Article

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