Modeling Contact Structures in Biology

摘要: The transmission of diseases, genetic characteristics, or cultural traits is influenced by many factors including the contact/social structure interacting subpopulation, that is, social environment. Classical demography (see MacKendrick, 1926; Lotka, 1922; and Leslie, 1945) ignores dynamics usually concentrates on birth death processes female populations under assumption they have reached a stable age distribution. They ignore specific mating/contact population. incorporation mating structures marriage functions, as are commonly referred to in human demography, was pioneered Kendall (1949) Keyfitz (1949). However, despite fact their work extended Parlett (1972), Predrickson (1971), McFarland Pollard (1973) two decades ago, impact epidemiology, population biology has been minimal.