The impact of imitation on vaccination behavior in social contact networks.

Previous game-theoretic studies of vaccination behavior typically have often assumed that populations are homogeneously mixed and that individuals are fully rational. In reality, there is heterogeneity in the number of contacts per individual, and individuals tend to imitate others who appear to hav...

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Auteurs principaux: Martial L Ndeffo Mbah, Jingzhou Liu, Chris T Bauch, Yonas I Tekel, Jan Medlock, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Alison P Galvani
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Collection:PLoS Computational Biology
Accès en ligne:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3325186?pdf=render