Spatiotemporal network structure among "friends of friends" reveals contagious disease process.

Disease transmission can be identified in a social network from the structural patterns of contact. However, it is difficult to separate contagious processes from those driven by homophily, and multiple pathways of transmission or inexact information on the timing of infection can obscure the detect...

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Main Authors: Carmel Witte, Laura L Hungerford, Bruce A Rideout, Rebecca Papendick, James H Fowler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237168