A bayesian approach for modeling cattle movements in the United States: scaling up a partially observed network.

Networks are rarely completely observed and prediction of unobserved edges is an important problem, especially in disease spread modeling where networks are used to represent the pattern of contacts. We focus on a partially observed cattle movement network in the U.S. and present a method for scalin...

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Main Authors: Tom Lindström, Daniel A Grear, Michael Buhnerkempe, Colleen T Webb, Ryan S Miller, Katie Portacci, Uno Wennergren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3537632?pdf=render