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Author response: Characterizing human mobility patterns in rural settings of sub-Saharan Africa

Year: 2021

Type: peer-review

Abstract: Mobile phone data reveal aspects of human mobility patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa missed by standard spatial models however, model estimates can be improved by accounting for trip urbanicity and region.

DOI: 10.7554/elife.68441.sa2

Authors: Hannah R Meredith, John R Giles, Javier Perez-Saez, Théophile Mande, Andrea Rinaldo, Simon Mutembo, Elliot N Kabalo, Kabondo Makungo, Caroline O Buckee, Andrew J Tatem, C Jessica E Metcalf, Amy Wesolowski

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, University of Padua, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA), Harvard University, University of Southampton, Princeton University

Language: English

Topic: Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W3200258754

Cites: 43

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