title: The effects of averaging on the basic reproduction ratio.
abstract: This paper formalizes the process of averaging the mixing patterns of behaviorally distinct individuals or groups. This averaging process is shown to decrease or leave unaltered the basic reproduction ratio R0 in epidemiological models with symmetric transmission between groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of California, Davis.
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Adler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological