About the Authors

Lander Willem

Contributed equally to this work with: Lander Willem, Sean Stijven

lander.willem@uantwerpen.be

Affiliations Centre for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Interuniversitary Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Sean Stijven

Contributed equally to this work with: Lander Willem, Sean Stijven

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Information Technology, Gent University–iMinds, Gent, Belgium

Ekaterina Vladislavleva

Affiliation Evolved Analytics Europe BVBA, Beerse, Belgium

Jan Broeckhove

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Philippe Beutels

Affiliations Centre for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Niel Hens

Affiliations Centre for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Interuniversitary Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW SS EV. Performed the experiments: LW SS. Analyzed the data: LW SS EV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EV JB PB NH. Wrote the paper: LW SS EV JB PB NH.