About the Authors

Isaac H. Goldstein

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Damon Bayer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Ivan Barilar

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation German Center for Infection Research, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Balladiah Kizito

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Victus Global Botswana Organisation, Gaborone, Botswana

Ogopotse Matsiri

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Victus Global Botswana Organisation, Gaborone, Botswana

Chawangwa Modongo

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

Affiliation Victus Global Botswana Organisation, Gaborone, Botswana

Nicola M. Zetola

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Stefan Niemann

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

stniemann@yahoo.de (SN); vminin@uci.edu (VMM); ssshin2@hs.uci.edu (SSS)

Affiliation German Center for Infection Research, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Volodymyr M. Minin

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

stniemann@yahoo.de (SN); vminin@uci.edu (VMM); ssshin2@hs.uci.edu (SSS)

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Sanghyuk S. Shin

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

stniemann@yahoo.de (SN); vminin@uci.edu (VMM); ssshin2@hs.uci.edu (SSS)

Affiliation Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SSS declares receiving consulting fees from Beckman Coulter and Hycor Biomedical on unrelated studies. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.