Inferring a district-based hierarchical structure of social contacts from census data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Yu, Zhiwen ^a   Liu, Jiming ^b   Zhu, Xianjun ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; HONG KONG; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CENSUSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT TRACING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84923233706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118085     Document Type: Article

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