Estimating Network Features and Associated Measures of Uncertainty and Their Incorporation in Network Generation and Analysis
Contributors: DeGruttola, Victor G.; Blitzstein, Joseph K.; Cohen, Theodore
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: The efficacy of interventions to control HIV spread depends upon many features of the communities where they are implemented, including not only prevalence, incidence, and per contact risk of transmission, but also properties of the sexual or transmission network. For this reason, HIV epidemic models have to take into account network properties including degree distribution and mixing patterns. The use of sampled data to estimate properties of a network is a common practice; however, current network generation methods do not account for the uncertainty in the estimates due to sampling.
Notes: Keywords: concurrency, HIV, infectious disease, network models, sampling.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012