About the Authors

Elliot M.R. Vincent

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

e.vincent@warwick.ac.uk; stephen.parnell@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliations EPSRC & MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematics for Real-World Systems, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Edward M. Hill

Contributed equally to this work with: Edward M. Hill, Stephen Parnell

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

Affiliations Civic Health Innovation Labs and Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Stephen Parnell

Contributed equally to this work with: Edward M. Hill, Stephen Parnell

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

e.vincent@warwick.ac.uk; stephen.parnell@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliations The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: EMH is an Editorial Board member for PLOS Computational Biology. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.