Catania: Pattern of sexual contacts in AMEN study

In mbojan/isnar: Introduction to Social Network Analysis with R

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).

Format

Four-by-four numeric matrix with dimnames.

          woman
man        black hispanic white other
  black    0.258    0.016 0.035 0.013
  hispanic 0.012    0.157 0.058 0.019
  white    0.013    0.023 0.306 0.035
  other    0.005    0.007 0.024 0.016

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 )

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