PrimarySchool

The network of contacts in a primary school

The network of contacts in a primary school was collected an first analyzed in “High-Resolution Measurements of Face-to-Face Contact Patterns in a Primary School” by J. Stehlé et al. in PLOS ONE (2011). This data set records physical interactions between \(226\) children and \(10\) teachers from the same primary school over the course of a day. The network data was collected using a system of sensors worn by the participants. This system records the duration of interactions between two individuals facing each other at a maximum distance of one and a half meters.

library(Matrix)
library(gsbm)
library(igraph)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'igraph'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#> 
#>     decompose, spectrum
#> The following object is masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     union
library(RColorBrewer)

data(PrimarySchool)
summary(PrimarySchool)
#>       Length Class  Mode   
#> A     55696  -none- numeric
#> class   236  factor numeric