# Model Reference ###### tags: `others` ## [Mitigation strategies for pandemic influenza in the United States](https://www.pnas.org/content/103/15/5935) * Geographic unit: **Census tract(人口普查區)** * Generate residents and **stochastically** assign groups to a resident. * 10 Groups and each of the groups has plenty subgroups 1. community: 2000 persons each 2. neighborhood: 4 household clusters each 3. household cluster: 4 households each 4. household: 7 persons each 5. work group: 20 persons each 6. high school: 155 persons each 7. middle school: 128 persons each 8. elementary school: 79 persons each 9. daycare center: 14 persons each 10. play group: 4 persons each * Work group might have persons from different **Census tract**, since some people works in different place with where he lives (worker flow) * Age only affects 1. Group assignment 2. Contact probability [(contact matrix)](https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2006/03/24/0601266103.DC1/01266Table3.pdf) ### Transmission ![](https://i.imgur.com/bluZA41.png) ![](https://i.imgur.com/8ZFETZg.png) ## [$R_0$](https://web.stanford.edu/~jhj1/teachingdocs/Jones-on-R0.pdf) ## [Probability of COVID-19 infection by cough of a normal person and a super-spreader](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7976050/) ## [Efficient Simulation of the Spatial Transmission Dynamics of Influenza](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013292#references)