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Models of epidemics: when contact repetition and clustering should be included

Timo Smieszek1 email, Lena Fiebig2 email and Roland W Scholz1 email

Institute for Environmental Decisions, Natural and Social Science Interface, ETH Zurich, Universitaetsstrasse 22, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

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Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2009, 6:11doi:10.1186/1742-4682-6-11

Published: 29 June 2009

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Algorithms. Provides a description of the key algorithms used for this paper following the ISO 5807-1985 standard.

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Epidemic curves. This document provides exemplary epidemic curves for selected parameter settings.

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Contour plots & tables. Additional contour plots for the differences in peak size and the differences in the simulation time till the peak is reached are given. In addition, data tables of means and standard deviations are provided for many analyses presented in this paper.

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Reproduction numbers. This document shows how equation 1 can be derived.

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