About the Authors

Piero Poletti

poletti@fbk.eu

Affiliations Center for Information Technology, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy, DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Alessia Melegaro

Affiliation DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Marco Ajelli

Affiliation Center for Information Technology, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Emanuele del Fava

Affiliation Center for Statistics, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Giorgio Guzzetta

Affiliation Center for Information Technology, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Luca Faustini

Affiliation ISTAT Regional Office for Tuscany, Firenze, Italy

Giampaolo Scalia Tomba

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Rome-Tor Vergata, Italy

Pierluigi Lopalco

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Caterina Rizzo

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

Stefano Merler

Affiliation Center for Information Technology, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Piero Manfredi

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP AM SM PM. Performed the experiments: PP. Analyzed the data: PP AM MA ED GST SM PM. Wrote the paper: PP AM MA GST PL CR SM PM. Developed mathematical models: PP AM MA ED GG LF SM PM. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: PP PM. Interpreted the results: PP AM MA ED GST SM PM.