About the Authors

Rong Zhang

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

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhao Ren

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zren@pitt.edu (ZR); wei.chen@chp.edu (WC)

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wei Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zren@pitt.edu (ZR); wei.chen@chp.edu (WC)

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.