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Symbolic transfer entropy reveals the age structure of pandemic influenza transmission from high-volume influenza-like illness data

2019-09-19 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWExisting methods to infer the relative roles of age groups in epidemic transmission can normally only accommodate a few age classes, and/or require data that are highly specific for the disease being studied. Here, symbolic transfer entropy (STE), a measure developed to identify asymmetric transfer of information between stochastic processes, is presented as a way to determine which age groups drive an epidemic. STE provides a ranking of which age groups dominate transmis...

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