Big city, small world: density, contact rates, and transmission of dengue across Pakistan
Big city, small world: density, contact rates, and transmission of dengue across Pakistan
Macroscopic descriptions of populations commonly assume that encounters between individuals are well mixed; i.e. each individual has an equal chance of coming into contact with any other individual. Relaxing this assumption can be challenging though, due to the difficulty of acquiring detailed knowledge about the non-random nature of encounters. Here, …