Using Friends as Sensors to Detect Global-Scale Contagious Outbreaks

• Manuel Garcia-Herranz ,

  * E-mail: manuel.garciaherranz@uam.es

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Esteban Moro,

  Affiliations Department of Mathematics & GISC, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Manuel Cebrian,

  Affiliations Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Information and Communications Technology Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Nicholas A. Christakis,

  Affiliations Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• James H. Fowler

  Affiliations Medical Genetics Division, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Political Science Department, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

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