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  • Epidemiology
  • Network Science
  • Computational Social Science

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  • Network-based interventions are cost-efficient for controlling contagions.
  • Real-world network data is often incomplete, limiting strategy implementation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate immunization strategies using partially-observed network data.
  • To compare global versus stochastic immunization under realistic conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Simulated network immunization strategies with varying levels of missing data.
  • Comparative analysis of degree immunization (global) and acquaintance immunization (stochastic).
  • Development of a novel acquaintance immunization variant using targeted data recovery.

Main Results:

  • Global immunization strategies (e.g., degree immunization) are optimal with sufficient data.
  • Stochastic strategies (e.g., acquaintance immunization) outperform global methods when data is highly incomplete.
  • A proposed acquaintance immunization variant improves performance with increasing missing data.

Conclusions:

  • Targeted immunization is effective in practice.
  • Idealized network assumptions can overestimate data accuracy.
  • Further data collection can enhance intervention effectiveness in incomplete networks.