About the Authors

Aaron Shev

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kevin Fujii

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Fushing Hsieh

fhsieh@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Brenda McCowan

Affiliation Department of Population Health & Reproduction, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS KF FH. Performed the experiments: AS KF. Analyzed the data: AS KF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS KF FH. Wrote the paper: AS KF FH BM. Experiment Design: AS KF FH BM. Analysis: AS KF FH. Data: AS BM. Writing: AS KF FH.