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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemics. 2015 Feb 7;11:32–47. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2015.01.003

Table 2. Age mixing matrix Λ(a, a′).

Each entry specifies the probability of a female in age group a to choose a male partner in age group a′. Values derived from Table 2 in [44] after excluding partnerships outside the model age range of 14–18 years.

a\a’ 1 2 3 4 5
1 0.277 0.198 0.197 0.197 0.131
2 0 0.318 0.228 0.227 0.227
3 0 0 0.54 0.23 0.23
4 0 0 0 0.705 0.295
5 0 0 0 0 1