assortativeness

English

Etymology

assortative +‎ -ness

Noun

assortativeness (uncountable)

1. The quality or degree of being assortative.
   • 2015 December 31, “Investigating Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program Efficiency Gains through Subpopulation Prioritization: Insights from Application to Zambia”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Accordingly, we varied HIV transmission probability per coital act, duration of each HIV stage, frequency of coital acts per HIV stage, duration of partnership, degree of assortativeness, scale parameter in the gamma distribution of the population across the risk groups, and exponent parameter in the power-law function of the distribution of sexual-risk behavior.

Derived terms

• disassortativeness