About the Authors

Jiaping Liu

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

jiaping.liu@stat.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Zhenglun Cai

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Paul Gustafson

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

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Daniel J. McDonald

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.