id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-260797-tc3pueow Aleta, Alberto Data-driven contact structures: From homogeneous mixing to multilayer networks 2020-07-16 .txt text/plain 6336 319 51 In addition, we conduct extensive numerical simulations and conclude that heterogeneities in the contact network are important for a proper determination of the epidemic threshold, whereas the age-structure plays a bigger role beyond the onset of the outbreak. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we focus on analyzing the role that disease-independent heterogeneity in host contact rates plays in the spreading of epidemics in large populations under several scenarios, both numerically and analytically. A slightly better approximation is to divide the population into agegroups, given the demographic structure of the population, Fig 1B, and establish a different number of contacts between and within them (model M), which is the common approach currently used in the epidemic literature to model age-mixing patterns. Nevertheless, most network approaches focus only on determining the role that the difference in the number of contacts of the population has on the impact of disease dynamics but ignore other types of heterogeneities such as the age mixing patterns. ./cache/cord-260797-tc3pueow.txt ./txt/cord-260797-tc3pueow.txt