About the Authors

Jing Tang

jing.tang@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

William P. Hanage

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

Christophe Fraser

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

Jukka Corander

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT WPH CF JC. Performed the experiments: JT. Analyzed the data: JT JC. Wrote the paper: JT WPH JC.