Census data aid disease simulation studies

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 22:21 in Biology & Nature

Over the last four years, researchers have been transforming data from the 2000 census -- which described the country's 281 million people and 116 million households -- into a virtual US population. They finished the "synthetic population" last year, and they plan to update it when the 2010 census results come out.

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