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. 2012 Feb 23;106(2):123–135. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.01.020

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
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.

a

Distance cut-off dichotomised at 5 km based on empirical research Firestone et al. (2011).

b

‘Maximal network’ with distance cut-off of 15.3 km, all nodes are incorporated into the largest weak component.

c

Based on estimate of herd-level R ≈ 2.0 from Cowled et al. (2009).