About the Authors

Christopher N. Davis

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

c.davis.7@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliations Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER), University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Edward M. Hill

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, 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

Chris P. Jewell

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Kristyna Rysava

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER), University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Robin N. Thompson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Michael J. Tildesley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER), University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematics Institute, 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.