About the Authors

Zhenwei Zhou

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

zwzhou@bu.edu (ZZ); lfwhite@bu.edu (LFW)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric D. Kolaczyk

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

Affiliations Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Robin N. Thompson

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mathematics Institute and SBIDER, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Laura F. White

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zwzhou@bu.edu (ZZ); lfwhite@bu.edu (LFW)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.