About the Authors

Daniel Wolffram

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

daniel.wolffram@kit.edu

Affiliations Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany

Sam Abbott

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Matthias an der Heiden

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Funk

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Felix Günther

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Davide Hailer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Stefan Heyder

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

Thomas Hotz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

Jan van de Kassteele

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Helmut Küchenhoff

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany

Sören Müller-Hansen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany

Diellë Syliqi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Alexander Ullrich

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Maximilian Weigert

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany

Melanie Schienle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany

Johannes Bracher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.