Beyond ranking nodes: Predicting epidemic outbreak sizes by network centralities.

Identifying important nodes for disease spreading is a central topic in network epidemiology. We investigate how well the position of a node, characterized by standard network measures, can predict its epidemiological importance in any graph of a given number of nodes. This is in contrast to other s...

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Main Authors: Doina Bucur, Petter Holme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008052