Epidemiological forecasts make quantitative statements about a disease outcome in the near future. Forecasting targets can include measures of prevalent or incident disease and its severity, for some population over a specified time horizon. Researchers, policy makers, and the general public have used such forecasts to understand and respond to the global outbreaks of COVID-19 (Van Basshuysen et al., 2021; CDC, 2020; European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2021c). At the same time, forecasters use a variety of methods and models for creating and publishing forecasts, varying in both defining the forecast outcome and in reporting the probability distribution of outcomes (Zelner et al., 2021; James et al., 2021).

Within Europe, comparing forecasts across both models and countries can support a range of national policy needs simultaneously. European public health professionals operate across national, regional, and continental scales, with strong existing policy networks in addition to rich patterns of cross-border migration influencing epidemic dynamics. A majority of European countries also cooperate in setting policy with inter-governmental European bodies such as the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). In this case, a consistent approach to forecasting across the continent as a whole can support accurately informing cross-European monitoring, analysis, and guidance (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2021c). At a regional level, multi-country forecasts can support a better understanding of the impact of regional migration networks. Meanwhile, where there is limited capacity for infectious disease forecasting at a national level, forecasters generating multi-country results can provide an otherwise-unavailable opportunity for forecasts to inform national situational awareness. Some independent forecasting models have sought to address this by producing multi-country results (Aguas et al., 2020; Adib et al., 2021; Agosto and Giudici, 2020; Agosto et al., 2021).

Variation in forecast methods and presentation makes it difficult to compare predictive performance between forecast models, and from there to derive objective arguments for using one forecast over another. This confounds the selection of a single representative forecast and reduces the reliability of the evidence base for decisions based on forecasts. A ‘forecast hub’ is a centralised effort to improve the transparency and usefulness of forecasts, by standardising and collating the work of many independent teams producing forecasts (Reich et al., 2019a). A hub sets a commonly agreed-upon structure for forecast targets, such as type of disease event, spatio-temporal units, or the set of quantiles of the probability distribution to include from probabilistic forecasts. For instance, a hub may collect predictions of the total number of cases reported in a given country for each day in the next 2 weeks. Forecasters can adopt this format and contribute forecasts for centralised storage in the public domain.

This shared infrastructure allows forecasts produced from diverse teams and methods to be visualised and quantitatively compared on a like-for-like basis, which can strengthen public and policy use of disease forecasts. The underlying approach to creating a forecast hub was pioneered in climate modelling and adapted for collaborative epidemiological forecasts of dengue (Johansson et al., 2019) and influenza in the USA (Reich et al., 2019a; Reich et al., 2019b). This infrastructure was adapted for forecasts of short-term COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US (Cramer et al., 2021a; Ray et al., 2020), prompting similar efforts in some European countries (Bracher et al., 2021c; Funk et al., 2020; Bicher et al., 2020).

Standardising forecasts allows for combining multiple forecasts into a single ensemble with the potential for an improved predictive performance. Evidence from previous efforts in multi-model infectious disease forecasting suggests that forecasts from an ensemble of models can be consistently high performing compared to any one of the component models (Johansson et al., 2019; Reich et al., 2019b; Viboud et al., 2018). Elsewhere, weather forecasting has a long-standing use of building ensembles of models using diverse methods with standardised data and formatting in order to improve performance (Buizza, 2019; Moran et al., 2016).

The European COVID-19 Forecast Hub (European Covid-19 Forecast Hub, 2023d) is a project to collate short-term forecasts of COVID-19 across 32 countries in the European region. The Hub is funded and supported by the ECDC, with the primary aim to provide reliable information about the near-term epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic to the research and policy communities and the general public (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2021c). Second, the Hub aims to create infrastructure for storing and analysing epidemiological forecasts made in real time by diverse research teams and methods across Europe. Third, the Hub aims to maintain a community of infectious disease modellers underpinned by open science principles.

We started formally collating and combining contributions to the European Forecast Hub in March 2021. Here, we investigate the predictive performance of an ensemble of all forecasts contributed to the Hub in real time each week, as well as the performance of variations of ensemble methods created retrospectively.

We developed infrastructure to host and analyse prospective forecasts of COVID-19 cases and deaths. The infrastructure is compatible with equivalent research software from the US (Cramer et al., 2021c; Wang et al., 2021) and German and Polish COVID-19 (Bracher et al., 2020) Forecast Hubs, and easy to replicate for new forecasting collaborations.

For 32 European countries, we collected, visualised, and made available online weekly COVID-19 forecasts and observed data (Sherratt, 2022). Over the whole study period, we collected forecasts from 48 unique models. Modellers created forecasts choosing from a set of 32 possible locations, four time horizons, and two variables, and modellers variously joined and left the Hub over time. This meant the number of models contributing to the Hub varied over time and by forecasting target. Using all models and the ensemble, we created 2139 forecasting scores, where each score summarises a unique combination of forecasting model, variable, country, and week ahead horizon (Figure 1).

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Of the total 48 models, we received the most forecasts for Germany, with 29 unique models submitting 1-week case forecasts, while only 12 models ever submitted 4-week case or death forecasts for Liechtenstein. Modelling teams also differed in how they expressed uncertainty. Only three models provided point forecasts with no estimate of uncertainty around their predictions, while 41 models provided the full set of 23 probabilistic quantiles across the predictive distribution for each target.

In this evaluation we included 29 models in comparison to the ensemble forecast (Figure 1). We have included metadata provided by modellers in the supplement and online (Sherratt, 2022). In this evaluation, at most 15 models contributed forecasts for cases in Germany at the 1 week horizon, with an accumulated 592 forecast scores for that single target over the study period. In contrast, deaths in Finland at the 2 week horizon saw the smallest number of forecasts, with only 6 independent models contributing 24 forecast scores at any time over the 52-week period. Of the 29 models included in this evaluation, 5 models provided less than the full set of 23 quantiles, and were excluded when creating the ensemble. No ensemble forecast was composed of less than 3 independent models.

We visually compared the absolute performance of forecasts in predicting numbers of incident cases and deaths. We observed that forecasts predicted well in times of stable epidemic behaviour, while struggling to accurately predict at longer horizons around inflection points, for example during rapid changes in population-level behaviour or surveillance. Forecast models varied widely in their ability to predict and account for the introduction of new variants, giving the ensemble forecast over these periods a high level of uncertainty. An example of weekly forecasts from the ensemble model is shown in Figure 2.

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In relative terms, the ensemble of all models performed well compared to both its component models and the baseline. By relative WIS scaled against a baseline of 1 (where a score <1 indicates outperforming the baseline), the median score of forecasts from the Hub ensemble model was 0.71, within an interquartile range of 0.61 at 25% probability to 0.88 at 75% probability. Meanwhile the median score of forecasts across all participating models (excluding the Hub ensemble) was 1.04 (IQR 0.82–1.36).

Across all horizons and locations, the ensemble performed better on scaled relative WIS than 83% of forecast scores when forecasting cases (with a total N=886 from 23 unique models), and 91% of scores for forecasts of incident deaths (N=763 scores from 20 models). We also saw high performance from the ensemble when evaluating against all models including those who did not submit the full set of probabilistic quantile predictions (80% for cases with N=1006 scores from 28 models, and 88% for deaths, N=877 scores from 24 models).

The performance of individual and ensemble forecasts varied by length of the forecast horizon (Figure 3). At each horizon, the typical performance of the ensemble outperformed both the baseline model and the aggregated scores of all its component models, although we saw wide variation between individual models in performance across horizons. Both individual models and the ensemble saw a trend of worsening performance at longer horizons when forecasting cases with the median scaled relative WIS of the ensemble across locations worsened from 0.62 for 1-week ahead forecasts to 0.9 when forecasting 4 weeks ahead. Performance for forecasts of deaths was more stable over one through 4 weeks, with median ensemble performance moving from 0.69 to 0.76 across the 4-week horizons.

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We observed similar trends in performance across horizon when considering how well the ensemble was calibrated with respect to the observed data. At 1 week ahead the case ensemble was well calibrated (ca. 50% and 95% nominal coverage at the 50% and 95% levels, respectively). This did not hold at longer forecast horizons as the case forecasts became increasingly over-confident. Meanwhile, the ensemble of death forecasts was well calibrated at the 95% level across all horizons, and the calibration of death forecasts at the 50% level improved with lengthening horizons compared to being underconfident at shorter horizons.

The ensemble also performed consistently well in comparison to individual models when forecasting across countries (Figure 4). In total, across 32 countries forecasting for 1 through 4 weeks, when forecasting cases the ensemble outperformed 75% of component models in 22 countries, and outperformed all available models in 3 countries. When forecasting deaths, the ensemble outperformed 75% and 100% of models in 30 and 8 countries, respectively. Considering only the the 2-week horizon shown in Figure 4, the ensemble of case forecasts outperformed 75% models in 25 countries and all models in only 12 countries. At the 2-week horizon for forecasts of deaths, the ensemble outperformed 75% and 100% of its component models in 30 and 26 countries, respectively.

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We considered alternative methods for creating ensembles from the participating forecasts, using either a mean or median to combine either weighted or unweighted forecasts. We evaluated each alternative ensemble model against the baseline model, taking the mean score ratio across all targets (Table 1). Across locations we observed that the median outperformed the mean across all one through 4 week horizons and both cases and death targets, for all but cases at the 1 week horizon. This held regardless of whether the component forecasts were weighted or unweighted by their individual past performance. Between methods of combination, weighting made little difference to the performance of the median ensemble, but appeared to improve performance of a mean ensemble in forecasting deaths.

We collated 12 months of forecasts of COVID-19 cases and deaths across 32 countries in Europe, collecting from multiple independent teams and using a principled approach to standardising both forecast targets and the predictive distribution of forecasts. We combined these into an ensemble forecast and compared the relative performance of forecasts between models, finding that the ensemble forecasts outperformed most individual models across all countries and horizons over time.

Across all models we observed that forecasting changes in trend in real time was particularly challenging. Our study period included multiple fundamental changes in viral-, individual-, and population-level factors driving the transmission of COVID-19 across Europe. In early 2021, the introduction of vaccination started to change population-level associations between infections, cases, and deaths (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2021b), while the Delta variant emerged and became dominant (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2021a). Similarly from late 2021 we saw the interaction of individually waning immunity during the emergence and global spread of the Omicron variant (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2022b). Neither the extent nor timing of these factors were uniform across European countries covered by the Forecast Hub (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2023). This meant that the performance of any single forecasting model depended partly on the ability, speed, and precision with which it could adapt to new conditions for each forecast target.

We observed a contrast between a more stable performance of forecasting deaths further into the future compared to forecasts of cases. Previous work has found rapidly declining performance for case forecasts with increasing horizon (Cramer et al., 2021b; Castro et al., 2020), while death forecasts can perform well with up to 6 weeks lead time (Friedman et al., 2021). We can link this to the specific epidemic dynamics in this study.

First, COVID-19 has a typical serial interval of less than a week (Alene et al., 2021). This implies that case forecasts of more than 2 weeks only remain valid if rates of both transmission and detection remain stable over the entire forecast horizon. In contrast, we saw rapid changes in epidemic dynamics across many countries in Europe over our study period, impacting the longer term case forecasts.

Second, we can interpret the higher reliability of death forecasts as due to the different lengths and distributions of time lags from infection to case and death reporting (Jin, 2021). For example, a spike in infections may be matched by a consistently sharp increase in case reporting, but a longer tailed distribution of the subsequent increase in death reports. This creates a lower magnitude of fluctuation in the time-series of deaths compared to that of cases. Similarly, surveillance data for death reporting is substantially more consistent, with fewer errors and retrospective corrections, than case reporting (Català et al., 2021).

Third, we also note that the performance of trend-based forecasts may have benefited from the slower changes to trends in incident deaths caused by gradually increasing vaccination rates. These features allow forecasters to incorporate the effect of changes in transmission more easily when forecasting deaths, compared to cases.

We found the ensemble in this study continued to outperform both other models and the baseline at up to 4 weeks ahead. Our results support previous findings that ensemble forecasts are the best or nearly the best performing models with respect to absolute predictive performance and appropriate coverage of uncertainty (Funk et al., 2020; Viboud et al., 2018; Cramer et al., 2021b). While the ensemble was consistently high performing, it was not strictly dominant across all forecast targets, reflecting findings from previous comparable studies of COVID-19 forecasts (Bracher et al., 2021c; Brooks, 2020). Our finding suggests the usefulness of an ensemble as a robust summary when forecasting across many spatio-temporal targets, without replacing the importance of communicating the full range of model predictions.

When exploring variations in ensemble methods, we found that the choice of median over means yielded the most consistent improvement in predictive performance, regardless of the method of weighting. Other work has supported the importance of the median in providing a stable forecast that better accounts for outlier forecasts than the mean (Brooks, 2020), although this finding may be dependent on the quality of the individual forecast submissions. In contrast, weighing models by past performance did not result in any consistent improvement in performance. This is in line with existing mixed evidence for any optimal ensemble method for combining short term probabilistic infectious disease forecasts. Many methods of combination have performed competitively in analyses of forecasts for COVID-19 in the US, including the simple mean and weighted approaches outperforming unweighted or median methods (Taylor and Taylor, 2023). This contrasts with later analyses finding weighted methods to give similar performance to a median average (Ray et al., 2020; Brooks, 2020). We can partly explain this inconsistency if performance of each method depends on the outcome being predicted (cases, deaths), its count (incident, cumulative) and absolute level, the changing disease dynamics, and the varying quality and quantity of forecasting teams over time.

We note several limitations in our approach to assessing the relative performance of an ensemble among forecast models. While we have described differences in model scores, we have not used any formal statistical test for comparing forecast scores, such as the Diebold-Mariano test (Diebold and Mariano, 1995), recognising that it is unclear how this is best achieved across many models. Our results are the outcome of evaluating forecasts against a specific performance metric and baseline, where multiple options for evaluation exist and the choice reflects the aim of the evaluation process. Further, our choice of baseline model affects the given performance scores in absolute terms, and more generally the choice of appropriate baseline for epidemic forecast models is not obvious when assessing infectious disease forecasts. The model used here is supported by previous work (Cramer et al., 2021b), yet previous evaluation in a similar context has suggested that choice of baseline affects relative performance in general (Bracher et al., 2021b), and future research should be done on the best choices of baseline models in the context of infectious disease epidemics.

Our assessment of forecast performance may further have been inaccurate due to limitations in the observed data against which we evaluated forecasts. We sourced data from a globally aggregated database to maintain compatibility across 32 countries (Dong et al., 2020). However, this made it difficult to identify the origin of lags and inconsistencies between national data streams, and to what extent these could bias forecasts for different targets. In particular, we saw some real time data revised retrospectively, introducing bias in either direction where the data used to create forecasts was not the same as that used to evaluate it. We attempted to mitigate this by using an automated process for determining data revisions, and excluding forecasts made at a time of missing, unreliable, or heavily revised data. We also recognise that evaluating forecasts against updated data is a valid alternative approach used elsewhere (Cramer et al., 2021b). More generally it is unclear if the expectation of observation revisions should be a feature built into forecasts. Further research is needed to understand the perspective of end-users of forecasts in order to assess this.

The focus of this study was describing and summarising an ensemble of many models. We note that we have little insight into the individual methods and wide variety of assumptions that modellers used. While we asked modellers to provide a short description of their methods, we did not create a rigorous framework for this, and we did not document whether modellers changed the methods for a particular submitted model over time. Both the content of and variation in modelling methods and assumptions are likely to be critical to explaining performance, rather than describing or summarising it. Exploring modellers’ methods and relating this to forecast performance will be an important area of future work.

In an emergency setting, access to visualised forecasts and underlying data is useful for researchers, policymakers, and the public (CDC, 2020). Previous European multi-country efforts to forecast COVID-19 have included only single models adapted to country-specific parameters (Aguas et al., 2020; Adib et al., 2021; Agosto et al., 2021).

The European Forecasting Hub acted as a unique tool for creating an open-access, cross-country modelling network, and connecting this to public health policy across Europe. By opening participation to many modelling teams and with international high participation, we were able to create robust ensemble forecasts across Europe. This also allows comparison across forecasts built with different interpretations of current data, on a like for like scale in real time. The European Hub has supported policy outputs at an international, regional, and national level, including Hub forecasts cited weekly in ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Reports (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2022a).

For forecast producers, an easily accessible comparison between results from different methods can highlight individual strengths and weaknesses and help prioritise new areas of work. Collating time-stamped predictions ensures that we can test true out-of-sample performance of models and avoid retrospective claims of performance. Testing the limits of forecasting ability with these comparisons forms an important part of communicating any model-based prediction to decision makers. For example, the weekly ECDC Communicable Disease Threats reports include the specific results of this work by qualitatively highlighting the greater uncertainty around case forecasts compared to death forecasts.

This study raises many further questions which could inform epidemic forecast modellers and users. The dataset created by the European Forecast Hub is an openly accessible, standardised, and extensively documented catalogue of real time forecasting work from a range of teams and models across Europe (European Covid-19 Forecast Hub, 2023b), and we recommend its use for further research on forecast performance. In the code developed for this study, we provide a worked example of downloading and using both the forecasts and their evaluation scores (covid19-forecast-hub-europe, 2022).

Future work could explore the impact on forecast models of changing epidemiology at a broad spatial scale by combining analyses of trends and turning points in cases and deaths with forecast performance, or extending to include data on vaccination, variant, or policy changes over time. There is also much scope for future research into methods for combining forecasts to improve performance of an ensemble. This includes altering the inclusion criteria of forecast models based on different thresholds of past performance, excluding or including only forecasts that predict the lowest and highest values (trimming) (Taylor and Taylor, 2023), or using alternative weighting methods such as quantile regression averaging (Funk et al., 2020). Exploring these questions would add to our understanding of real time performance, supporting and improving future forecasting efforts.

We see additional scope to adapt the Hub format to the changing COVID-19 situation across Europe. We have extended the Forecast Hub infrastructure to include short term forecasts for hospitalisations with COVID-19, which is a challenging task due to limited data across the locations covered by the hub. As the policy focus shifts from immediate response to anticipating changes brought by vaccinations or the geographic spread of new variants (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2023), we are also separately investigating models for longer term scenarios in addition to the short term forecasts in a similar framework to existing scenario modelling work in the US (Borchering et al., 2021).

In conclusion, we have shown that during a rapidly evolving epidemic spreading through multiple populations, an ensemble forecast performed highly consistently across a large matrix of forecast targets, typically outperforming the majority of its separate component models and a naive baseline model. In addition, we have linked issues with the predictability of short-term case forecasts to underlying COVID-19 epidemiology, and shown that ensemble methods based on past model performance were unable to reliably improve forecast performance. Our work constitutes a step towards both unifying COVID-19 forecasts and improving our understanding of them.

All source data were openly available before the study, originally available at: https://github.com/covid19-forecast-hub-europe/covid19-forecast-hub-europe (copy archived at swh:1:rev:b4d66c495e07c12d88384506154cf58f08592365). All data and code for this study are openly available on Github: covid19-forecast-hub-europe/euro-hub-ensemble.

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Author details

1. Katharine Sherratt

   London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

   Contribution

   Conceptualization, Data curation, Software, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing - original draft, Writing – review and editing

   For correspondence

   katharine.sherratt@lshtm.ac.uk

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-2049-3423

2. Hugo Gruson

   London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

   Contribution

   Software, Writing – review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

3. Rok Grah

   European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

   Contribution

   Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

4. Helen Johnson

   European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

   Contribution

   Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

5. Rene Niehus

   European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

   Contribution

   Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

6. Bastian Prasse

   European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

   Contribution

   Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

7. Frank Sandmann

   European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

   Contribution

   Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

8. Jannik Deuschel

   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

   Contribution

   Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

9. Daniel Wolffram

   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

   Contribution

   Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-0318-3669

10. Sam Abbott

    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

    Contribution

    Validation, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

11. Alexander Ullrich

    Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

    Contribution

    Software, Visualization

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

12. Graham Gibson

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States

    Contribution

    Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

13. Evan L Ray

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States

    Contribution

    Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

14. Nicholas G Reich

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States

    Contribution

    Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

15. Daniel Sheldon

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States

    Contribution

    Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

16. Yijin Wang

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States

    Contribution

    Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-4438-6366

17. Nutcha Wattanachit

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States

    Contribution

    Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

18. Lijing Wang

    Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

19. Jan Trnka

    Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-1786-7562

20. Guillaume Obozinski

    Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

21. Tao Sun

    Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-6357-6726

22. Dorina Thanou

    Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

23. Loic Pottier

    Éducation nationale, Valbonne, France

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

24. Ekaterina Krymova

    Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

25. Jan H Meinke

    Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

26. Maria Vittoria Barbarossa

    Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

27. Neele Leithauser

    Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

28. Jan Mohring

    Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

29. Johanna Schneider

    Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-9330-2838

30. Jaroslaw Wlazlo

    Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

31. Jan Fuhrmann

    Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-7091-3740

32. Berit Lange

    Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

33. Isti Rodiah

    Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

34. Prasith Baccam

    IEM, Inc, Bel Air, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    Affiliated with IEM, Inc. The author has no financial interests to declare

35. Heidi Gurung

    IEM, Inc, Bel Air, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    Affiliated with IEM, Inc. The author has no financial interests to declare

36. Steven Stage

    IEM, Inc, Baton Rouge, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    Affiliated with IEM, Inc. The author has no financial interests to declare

37. Bradley Suchoski

    IEM, Inc, Bel Air, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    Affiliated with IEM, Inc. The author has no financial interests to declare

38. Jozef Budzinski

    Independent researcher, Vienna, Austria

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

39. Robert Walraven

    Independent researcher, Davis, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

40. Inmaculada Villanueva

    Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-4940-085X

41. Vit Tucek

    Institute of Computer Science of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

42. Martin Smid

    Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

43. Milan Zajicek

    Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-3226-7266

44. Cesar Perez Alvarez

    Inverence, Madrid, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

45. Borja Reina

    Inverence, Madrid, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing, Conceptualization

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

46. Nikos I Bosse

    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

    Contribution

    Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

47. Sophie R Meakin

    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

48. Lauren Castro

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

49. Geoffrey Fairchild

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

50. Isaac Michaud

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

51. Dave Osthus

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

52. Pierfrancesco Alaimo Di Loro

    LUMSA University, Rome, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

53. Antonello Maruotti

    LUMSA University, Rome, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-8377-9950

54. Veronika Eclerova

    Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-8476-7740

55. Andrea Kraus

    Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

56. David Kraus

    Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

57. Lenka Pribylova

    Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

58. Bertsimas Dimitris

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

59. Michael Lingzhi Li

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

60. Soni Saksham

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

61. Jonas Dehning

    Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

62. Sebastian Mohr

    Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

63. Viola Priesemann

    Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-8905-5873

64. Grzegorz Redlarski

    Medical University of Gdansk, Gdańsk, Poland

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

65. Benjamin Bejar

    Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

66. Giovanni Ardenghi

    Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

67. Nicola Parolini

    Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

68. Giovanni Ziarelli

    Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

69. Wolfgang Bock

    Technical University of Kaiserlautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

70. Stefan Heyder

    Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

71. Thomas Hotz

    Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

72. David E Singh

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

73. Miguel Guzman-Merino

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

74. Jose L Aznarte

    Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

75. David Morina

    Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

76. Sergio Alonso

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-3989-8757

77. Enric Alvarez

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

78. Daniel Lopez

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

79. Clara Prats

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-1398-7559

80. Jan Pablo Burgard

    Universitat Trier, Trier, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-5771-6179

81. Arne Rodloff

    University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

82. Tom Zimmermann

    University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

83. Alexander Kuhlmann

    University of Halle, Halle, Germany

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

84. Janez Zibert

    University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

85. Fulvia Pennoni

    University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

86. Fabio Divino

    University of Molise, Pesche, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

87. Marti Catala

    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

88. Gianfranco Lovison

    University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

89. Paolo Giudici

    University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

90. Barbara Tarantino

    University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

91. Francesco Bartolucci

    University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

92. Giovanna Jona Lasinio

    University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

93. Marco Mingione

    University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

94. Alessio Farcomeni

    University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-7104-5826

95. Ajitesh Srivastava

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

96. Pablo Montero-Manso

    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

97. Aniruddha Adiga

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

98. Benjamin Hurt

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

99. Bryan Lewis

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States

    Contribution

    Methodology, Writing – review and editing

    Competing interests

    No competing interests declared

    "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-0793-6082

100. Madhav Marathe

     University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

101. Przemyslaw Porebski

     University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

     "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-8012-5791

102. Srinivasan Venkatramanan

     University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

103. Rafal P Bartczuk

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

     "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-0433-7327

104. Filip Dreger

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

105. Anna Gambin

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

106. Krzysztof Gogolewski

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

     "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-5523-5198

107. Magdalena Gruziel-Slomka

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

108. Bartosz Krupa

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

109. Antoni Moszyński

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

110. Karol Niedzielewski

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

111. Jedrzej Nowosielski

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

112. Maciej Radwan

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

113. Franciszek Rakowski

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

114. Marcin Semeniuk

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

115. Ewa Szczurek

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

116. Jakub Zielinski

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

     "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-8935-8137

117. Jan Kisielewski

     1. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
     2. University of Bialystok, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

118. Barbara Pabjan

     University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

119. Kirsten Holger

     Universtät Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

120. Yuri Kheifetz

     Universtät Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

121. Markus Scholz

     Universtät Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

122. Biecek Przemyslaw

     Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

     Present address

     University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

123. Marcin Bodych

     Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

124. Maciej Filinski

     Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

125. Radoslaw Idzikowski

     Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

126. Tyll Krueger

     Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

127. Tomasz Ozanski

     Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

     Contribution

     Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

128. Johannes Bracher

     Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

     Contribution

     Software, Methodology, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

129. Sebastian Funk

     London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

     Contribution

     Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Writing – review and editing

     Competing interests

     No competing interests declared

     "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-2842-3406

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