About the Authors

Lixiang Zhang

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

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lin Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jia Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jiali@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.