Catania {netseg}

Pattern of sexual contacts in AMEN study

Description

Contact layer of the mixing matrix of men and women in US based on "Aids in Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods" (AMEN). Based on Newman (2003).

Usage

Catania

Format

Four-by-four numeric matrix with dimnames.

#>           female
#> male       black hispanic other white
#>   black      506       32    26    69
#>   hispanic    23      308    38   114
#>   other       10       14    32    47
#>   white       26       46    68   599

Source

Newman, M. (2003) "Mixing patterns in networks" Arxiv:cond-mat/0209450 v2

References

Catania et al. (1992) "The population-based AMEN (AIDS in Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods) study" American Journal of Public Health 82, 284-287

Morris, M. (1995) "Data driven network models for the spread of infectious disease". In D. Mollison (ed.) Epidemic Models: Their Structure and Relation to Data, pp. 302-322, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Newman, M. (2003) "Mixing patterns in networks" Arxiv:cond-mat/0209450 v2

Examples

data(Catania)

# assortativity
ep <- sum(Catania %*% Catania)
( sum(diag(Catania)) - ep ) / ( 1 - ep )