About the Authors

Lilith K. Whittles

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter J. White

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

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Modelling and Economics Unit, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Xavier Didelot

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

xavier.didelot@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.