About the Authors

Hua-Chang Chen

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

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jing Wang

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yu Shyr

Roles Project administration, Supervision

yu.shyr@vumc.org (YS); qi.liu@vumc.org (QL)

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Qi Liu

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

yu.shyr@vumc.org (YS); qi.liu@vumc.org (QL)

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.