About the Authors

Asuman S. Turkmen

turkmen@stat.osu.edu

Affiliations Statistics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Statistics Department, The Ohio State University, Newark, Ohio, United States of America

Shili Lin

Affiliation Statistics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL AT. Performed the experiments: AT. Analyzed the data: AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL AT. Wrote the paper: SL AT.