Figure 3
From: Trading contact tracing efficiency for finding patient zero
The effectiveness of tracing for varying \(\beta _{tr}\) and \(\omega _{tr}\). In each plot, the x-axis corresponds to the tracing breadth parameter \(\beta _{tr}\) (with greater values indicating more focus on the breadth). The y-axis corresponds to the tracing window offset parameter \(\omega _{tr}\) (with greater values indicating the window shifted to the future). The plots in the first row present the number of infected detected by the tracing process, colours closer to red indicate more effective detection. The plots in the second row present the number of edges between the earliest detected infection and the actual source. The colour closer to blue indicates more effective detection. Each column shows results for networks with 10,000 nodes generated using different models, either Barabási–Albert, Erdős–Rényi, or Watts–Strogatz, with tracing budget \(b=10\). The results are presented as an average of over 1000 simulations, with a new network generated for every simulation.
