About the Authors

Nicolas Franco

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

nicolas.franco@uhasselt.be

Affiliations Data Science Institute, Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, Namur Institute for Complex Systems (naXys) and Department of Mathematics, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

Pietro Coletti

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

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

Lander Willem

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Leonardo Angeli

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

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

Adrien Lajot

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

Steven Abrams

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

Affiliations Data Science Institute, Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, Global Health Institute (GHI), Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Philippe Beutels

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Christel Faes

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

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

Niel Hens

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Data Science Institute, Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.