کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1129472 955258 2007 16 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Mixing patterns between age groups in social networks
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات آمار و احتمال
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Mixing patterns between age groups in social networks
چکیده انگلیسی

We present a method for estimating transmission matrices that describe the mixing and the probability of infection between age groups. Transmission matrices can be used to estimate age-dependent forces of infection in age-structured, compartmental models for the study of infectious diseases. We analyze the social network generated by the synthetic population of Portland and extract mixing patterns. Our results show that the mixing within the population consists of two groups, children and adults. Children interact most frequently with other children close to their own age, while adults interact with a wider range of age groups and the durations of typical adult contacts are shorter than typical contacts between children. Furthermore, the transmission matrix shows that children are more likely to acquire infection than adults.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Social Networks - Volume 29, Issue 4, October 2007, Pages 539–554
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