Table 2.
Network-level parameters calculated for contact, proximity and contact-and-proximity networks of the first 10 days of the 2007 equine influenza outbreak in Australia.
| Parameter | Contact network | Proximity network |
Contact-and-proximity network |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 kma | 15.3 kmb | 5 kma | 15.3 kmb | ||
| Network size | |||||
| Number of nodes | 197 | 197 | 197 | 197 | 197 |
| Number of directed links | 70 | 852 | 2518 | 921 | 2586 |
| Number of isolates | 127 | 54 | 24 | 19 | 0 |
| Average path length | 1.80 | 1.63 | 1.45 | 2.22 | 1.92 |
| Network diameter | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Network centralisation | |||||
| Betweenness centralisation | 0.002 | 0.005 | 0.004 | 0.008 | 0.015 |
| In-degree centralisation | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.07 | 0.19 |
| Out-degree centralisation | 0.17 | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.15 | 0.19 |
| CV of total degree | 2.51 | – | – | – | – |
| Effective reproduction ratioc | 14.6 | – | – | – | – |
| Network cohesion | |||||
| Density | 0.002 | 0.022 | 0.065 | 0.024 | 0.067 |
| Clustering coefficient | 0.000 | 0.902 | 0.906 | 0.861 | 0.882 |
| Network substructures | |||||
| Number of components | 1 | 28 | 20 | 6 | 1 |
| Size of largest component (number of nodes) | 70 | 28 | 58 | 167 | 197 |
| Number of cutpoints | 7 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 19 |
CV = coefficient of variation.
Distance cut-off dichotomised at 5 km based on empirical research Firestone et al. (2011).
‘Maximal network’ with distance cut-off of 15.3 km, all nodes are incorporated into the largest weak component.
Based on estimate of herd-level R ≈ 2.0 from Cowled et al. (2009).