About the Authors

Andrea Torneri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

andrea.torneri@uantwerp.be

Affiliations Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Pieter Libin

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Christel Faes

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

James G. Wood

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Niel Hens

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.