A Penalized Likelihood Approach to Estimate Within-Household Contact Networks from Egocentric Data
A Penalized Likelihood Approach to Estimate Within-Household Contact Networks from Egocentric Data
Summary Acute infectious diseases are transmitted over networks of social contacts. Epidemic models are used to predict the spread of emergent pathogens and to compare intervention strategies. Many of these models assume equal probability of contact within mixing groups (homes, schools, etc.), but little work has inferred the actual contact …