About the Authors

Oswaldo Gressani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

oswaldo.gressani@uhasselt.be

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Jacco Wallinga

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Christian L. Althaus

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Niel Hens

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaxinfectio, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Christel Faes

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.