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A Machine Learning Framework for Constructing Heterogeneous Contact Networks: Implications for Epidemic Modelling

2026-03-16

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Capturing the structured mixing within a population is key to the reliable projection of infectious disease dynamics and hence informed control. Both heterogeneity in the number of epidemiologically-relevant contacts and age-structured mixing have been repeatedly demonstrated as fundamental, yet are rarely combined. Networks provide a powerful and intuitive method to realise these two elements of population struct...

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Literature Corpus work: 5a8c8ae7-91fe-5b78-8965-7c2538b37c8f
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.14.26348396

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