Six challenges in measuring contact networks for use in modelling

Epidemics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-77

  Eames, K ^a   Bansal, S ^b,e   Frost, S ^c   Riley, S ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact patterns; Disease transmission; Mathematical modelling; Model driven data collection; Network measurement; Networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONTACT EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONTACT TRACING; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84926146840     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: 18780067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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