The same problem arose when contacting networks of professionals, as described in the methods section.
For each data set, we create 100 instances of surrogate contact networks for each sampling method.
Figure 5 Degree and link weight distributions in the four contact networks.
With the latter driven as a function of contact networks, Gao et al.
Simulated PWID contact networks are created and compared with Bernoulli graphs.
In such prediction, Realistic Contact Networks (RCNs) have been widely used to characterize disease dynamics.
Studies of contact networks for livestock populations, concentrating on between-farm movements, have highlighted considerable heterogeneity between and within contact networks [14].
Similar methods are applied when considering the spread of diseases in social contact networks [35].
HIV spreads through often complex contact networks or transmission (infection) chains [26], [27].
Our data have demonstrated the heterogeneous nature of badger-cattle inter-specific contact networks.
In Table 3, some relevant metrics for the contact networks are listed.
