About the Authors

Marta Luisa Ciofi degli Atti

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: marta.ciofi@iss.it

Affiliation National Center for Epidemiology Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Stefano Merler

Affiliation Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

Caterina Rizzo

Affiliations National Center for Epidemiology Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Marco Ajelli

Affiliations Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento Italy

Marco Massari

Affiliation National Center for Epidemiology Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Piero Manfredi

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Mathematics Applied to Economics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Cesare Furlanello

Affiliation Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of ‘Tor Vergata’, Roma, Italy

Mimmo Iannelli

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC SM CR MA MI. Performed the experiments: SM MA. Analyzed the data: MC SM CR MA. Wrote the paper: MC SM CR. Other: Contributed to interpreting the results and to editing the manuscript: GS MI MM CF PM. Drafted and edited the Supplementary Information: MA SM.