Human interactions play an important role in determining the potential transmission routes of infectious diseases and other contagion phenomena 1. Their measure and characterization represent an ...

Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

This paper offers a synthetic view of several academic fields that usually require stand-alone lengthy developments: sociology, social psychology and graph theories. The purpose thereof is not to deep ...

Several states with extensive water use databases rely upon the census approach. That is, data are collected for all water users withdrawing amounts greater than a specified threshold that varies from ...