Research Article

Pathogens, Social Networks, and the Paradox of Transmission Scaling

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Classes of social networks. Two classes of social networks where the node represents an individual and the edge a social connection or epidemiological relevant contact according to edge distributions (i.e., contact networks) that are described by (a) Poisson networks and (b) power law networks.
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