Evaluating the adequacy of gravity models as a description of human mobility for epidemic modelling.

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Published in PLoS Comput Biol on October 18, 2012

Authors

James Truscott1, Neil M Ferguson

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, UK. j.truscott@imperial.ac.uk

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