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Table 2 Terminology in abstract, title and keywords from all unique query hits and in the included IBM modeling studies for infectious disease transmission. One article can contain several terms

From: Lessons from a decade of individual-based models for infectious disease transmission: a systematic review (2006-2015)

 

All hits

Included articles

Positive predicted value

Sensitivity

Model*

5271

686

0.130

0.983

Simulat*

2318

504

0.217

0.722

Agent-based

969

251

0.259

0.360

Individual-based

616

241

0.391

0.345

Micro-simulation

396

54

0.136

0.077

Cel* automata

249

62

0.249

0.089

Other individual-level related terms (see Methods)

3367

124

0.037

0.178

Disease

2791

445

0.159

0.638

Infect*

1939

553

0.285

0.792

Transmi*

1847

441

0.239

0.632

Epidem*

3029

521

0.172

0.746

Disease OR infect*

3564

629

0.176

0.901

Infect* AND disease AND transmi*

628

252

0.401

0.361

TOTAL

5520

698

0.126

1.000

  1. The asterisk (*) is used in the search as a wildcard and represents any group of characters, including no character