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Measures of Disassortativeness and their Application to Directly Transmitted Infections
Author(s) -
Farrington C. P.,
Whitaker H. J.,
Wallinga J.,
Manfredi P.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
biometrical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.108
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-4036
pISSN - 0323-3847
DOI - 10.1002/bimj.200800160
Subject(s) - homogeneous , standardization , measure (data warehouse) , transmission (telecommunications) , multivariate statistics , mixing (physics) , social contact , mixing patterns , econometrics , computer science , statistics , mathematics , data mining , psychology , telecommunications , physics , combinatorics , social psychology , quantum mechanics , operating system
We propose a measure of disassortativeness to summarize contact patterns relevant to the transmission of directly transmitted infections. We discuss the properties of this measure, describe standardization relative to homogeneous mixing, and generalize it to multivariate contact structures. We explore some of its properties and apply our methods to serological surveys of close contact infections and surveys of self‐reported social contacts obtained in several European countries.