id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-256713-tlluxd11 Welch, David Is Network Clustering Detectable in Transmission Trees? 2011-06-03 .txt text/plain 5841 306 57 [15] show that for a class of networks known as random intersection graphs in which individuals belong to one or more overlapping groups and groups form fully connected cliques, an increase in clustering reduces the epidemic threshold, that is, major outbreaks may occur at lower levels of transmissibility in highly clustered networks. They demonstrate that a rewiring of random intersection graphs that preserves the degree sequence but decreases clustering produces networks with similarly lowered epidemic thresholds and even smaller mean outbreak sizes. From a statistical point of view, these results indicate that even with full data from a particular epidemic outbreak, such as complete knowledge of the transmission tree, it is unlikely that the level of clustering in the underlying contact network could be accurately inferred independently of the degree distribution. ./cache/cord-256713-tlluxd11.txt ./txt/cord-256713-tlluxd11.txt