About the Authors

Yangqing Deng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Wei Pan

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

panxx014@umn.edu

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.