Mikko Kotila

> There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about the relationship between sample sizes and estimator quality. The thread is initiated on the premise that the data, in terms...

> I think there may be some disconnect in what the POLYMOD was gathered for and what someone might want from a dataset. If one wants to "model human life"...

Just FYI, the original post was prompted by seeing this graphic shared by THL:  When you run the tallies for each column, you end up with...

After going through many options, I believe that we get the most reasonable result simply by randomly picking an actual record based on age (or multiple records on the age...

Great work guys :) Can we add the controls to the settings next?

> Thanks to @jampekka for producing the smoothed contact matrix data! What do you mean by "smoothed"? Could you share link to the data and ETL scripts.

> logic being that interactions close by in the matrix should be correlated Do you mean that if person-1 and person-2 both have high number of contacts, they are more...

Instead of the complexity in the "bespoke and highly granular behavioral model" illustrated above, we can start with following a simpler approach: - Home - Work - School - Transport...

### Update The proposed: - Home - Work - School - Transport - Leisure - Other ...is not going to work as it is. None of this is actionable. In...

Ah sorry, I did not realize you had already replied. I have been thinking about how to make the behavioral part entirely based on POLYMOD as we had initially discussed....