Statistical inference links data and theory in network science

L Peel, TP Peixoto, M De Domenico - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The number of network science applications across many different fields has been rapidly
increasing. Surprisingly, the development of theory and domain-specific applications often …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children and adolescents in households, communities and educational settings: A systematic review …

O Irfan, J Li, K Tang, Z Wang, ZA Bhutta - Journal of global health, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background There is uncertainty with respect to SARS-CoV-2 transmission in children (0-19
years) with controversy on effectiveness of school-closures in controlling the pandemic. It is …

Contact patterns in a high school: a comparison between data collected using wearable sensors, contact diaries and friendship surveys

R Mastrandrea, J Fournet, A Barrat - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Given their importance in shaping social networks and determining how information or
transmissible diseases propagate in a population, interactions between individuals are the …

Inference of hyperedges and overlapping communities in hypergraphs

M Contisciani, F Battiston, C De Bacco - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have
recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social …

Simulating the effect of school closure during COVID-19 outbreaks in Ontario, Canada

E Abdollahi, M Haworth-Brockman, Y Keynan… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The province of Ontario, Canada, has instituted indefinite school
closures (SC) as well as other social distancing measures to mitigate the impact of the novel …

The effectiveness of backward contact tracing in networks

S Kojaku, L Hébert-Dufresne, E Mones, S Lehmann… - Nature physics, 2021 - nature.com
Effective control of an epidemic relies on the rapid discovery and isolation of infected
individuals. Because many infectious diseases spread through interaction, contact tracing is …

Reactive school closure weakens the network of social interactions and reduces the spread of influenza

M Litvinova, QH Liu, ES Kulikov… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
School-closure policies are considered one of the most promising nonpharmaceutical
interventions for mitigating seasonal and pandemic influenza. However, their effectiveness …

Data on face-to-face contacts in an office building suggest a low-cost vaccination strategy based on community linkers

M Génois, CL Vestergaard, J Fournet, A Panisson… - Network …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Empirical data on contacts between individuals in social contexts play an important role in
providing information for models describing human behavior and how epidemics spread in …

Modelling safe protocols for reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic in France

L Di Domenico, G Pullano, CE Sabbatini… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As countries in Europe implement strategies to control the COVID-19 pandemic, different
options are chosen regarding schools. Through a stochastic age-structured transmission …

Full reconstruction of simplicial complexes from binary contagion and Ising data

H Wang, C Ma, HS Chen, YC Lai, HF Zhang - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Previous efforts on data-based reconstruction focused on complex networks with pairwise or
two-body interactions. There is a growing interest in networks with higher-order or many …