Parasite dispersal by humans

Compute the p by p matrix \(\mathcal{D}\) whose columns describe how potentially infectious person time from persons in that patch are dispersed across other patches. $$\mathcal{D} = \mbox{diag}\left(W \right) \cdot \beta^T \cdot \mbox{diag}\left(bDH\right) \cdot \beta$$

metric_calD(W, beta, b, D, H)

Arguments

W

ambient human population at each patch

beta

the biting distribution matrix

b

transmission efficiency from mosquitoes to humans

D

human transmitting capacity

H

human population size of each strata

Value

a numeric matrix