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SUBMITTER: Keeling MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2889353 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Keeling Matt J MJ Danon Leon L Vernon Matthew C MC House Thomas A TA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100426 19
The theory of networks has had a huge impact in both the physical and life sciences, shaping our understanding of the interaction between multiple elements in complex systems. In particular, networks have been extensively used in predicting the spread of infectious diseases where individuals, or populations of individuals, interact with a limited set of others-defining the network through which the disease can spread. Here for such disease models we consider three assumptions for capturing the n ...[more]