Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie formation

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pan, Wei ^a   Ghoshal, Gourab ^a,d   Krumme, Coco ^a   Cebrian, Manuel ^a,b,c   Pentland, Alex ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY; CRIME; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; URBAN AREA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; HIV INFECTIONS; TRANSMISSION;

CITIES; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84891618833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2961     Document Type: Article

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