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conmat: generate synthetic contact matrices for a given age-stratified population

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Contact matrices describe the number of contacts between individuals.They are used to create models of infectious disease spread.conmat is an R package which generates synthetic contact matrices for arbitrary input demography, ready for use in infectious disease modelling.

Source: The Journal of Open Source Software

DOI: 10.21105/joss.08326

Authors: Nicholas Tierney, Chitra Saraswati, Aarathy Babu, Michael Lydeamore, Nick Golding

Institutions: The Kids Research Institute Australia, Monash University, The University of Western Australia

Topic: Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W7127635692

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