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Data-Driven Construction of Age-Structured Contact Networks

2025-03-17 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Capturing the structure of a population and characterising contacts within the population are key to reliable projections of infectious disease. Two main elements of population structure - contact heterogeneity and age - have been repeatedly demonstrated to be key in infection dynamics, yet are rarely combined. Regarding individuals as nodes and contacts as edges within a network provides a powerful and intuitive method to fully realise this population structure. While there are a few key exampl...

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