Bubbles - dime-worldbank/Disease-Modelling-SSA GitHub Wiki

We use the idea of bubbles to create regularity within the simulation. Bubbles reflect the way that we consistently interact with the same people within our communities in the course of our routine activities. By using bubbles, we provide a more realistic understanding of human behaviour, avoiding the patterns of true random mixing.

We currently only consider workplace bubbles in the model

Work bubbles

We group people into workplace bubbles through the census file. A person's workplace bubble will contain only members of the same occupation and only members from the same region. Bubbles are assigned using sample bubble sizes taken from field data collected as part of this project. Each occupation considered in this model has it's own distribution of bubble size, from which we generate collections of workplace bubbles for our simulations.