Leveraging social networks for understanding the evolution of epidemics

BMC Systems Biology

Table 2 Comparison of different network parameters

Contact Network	Average Contact Nr.	k	k ²	μ	σ
Social Network	45.088	9.649	119.068	-	-
Normal Distrib.	45.060	45.060	2050.854	26.250	1.000
Exp. Distrib.	45.016	45.016	2734.460	26.250	1.000

Comparison for several parameters of the social network-based model, the normal distribution-based model, and the exponential distribution-based model. The parameters we are showing are: the average contact number, the connection degree, the average of the squared values of the number of contacts, the mean value at the peak of the probability distribution, and the standard deviation.

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