Can co-location be used as a proxy for face-to-face contacts?

Abstract Technological advances have led to a strong increase in the number of data collection efforts aimed at measuring co-presence of individuals at different spatial resolutions. It is however unclear how much co-presence data can inform us on actual face-to-face contacts, of particular interest...

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Main Authors: Mathieu Génois, Alain Barrat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-05-01
Series:EPJ Data Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0140-1