About the Authors

Qiwei Li

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David B. Dahl

dahl@stat.byu.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Marina Vannucci

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hyun Joo

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, United States of America

Jerry W. Tsai

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QL DBD MV HJ JWT. Performed the experiments: QL DBD MV HJ JWT. Analyzed the data: QL DBD MV HJ JWT. Wrote the paper: QL DBD MV HJ JWT.