Estimating within-school contact networks to understand influenza transmission

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-26

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

^a NONE

Author keywords

Contact network; Epidemic model; Influenza; Simulation model; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870271865     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOAS505     Document Type: Article

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