Table 1.
Summary of Some of the Notations Used in the Chapter (See Marathe and Vullikanti, 2013 for More Discussion)
| G(V,E) | Social contact network on a population V, with each edge e = (u,v) ∈ E representing a contact |
| N(v) | Set of neighbors of node v ∈ V in graph G |
| β(e,t) for e = (u,v) | Transmission probability: the probability that the infection spreads from u to v per time unit of contact, if u is infected and v is not |
| I(t) | The set of nodes infected at time t |
| (|I(t)|,t = 0,1,…) | Epidemic curve |
| Peak value of an epidemic | |
| argmaxt|I(t)| | Time to peak |