About the Authors

Qing Xie

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Biostatistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United State of America

Chenggong Han

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Biostatistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United State of America

Victor Jin

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United State of America

Shili Lin

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

shili@stat.osu.edu

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Biostatistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United State of America, Department of Statistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United State of America, Translational Data Analytics Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United State of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.