About the Authors

Saulo H. P. de Oliveira

saulo.deoliveira@dtc.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Jiye Shi

Affiliations Department of Informatics, UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Charlotte M. Deane

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

One of the authors [JS] is currently employed at UCB Pharma. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHPO JS CMD. Performed the experiments: SHPO. Analyzed the data: SHPO CMD. Wrote the paper: SHPO CMD. Contributed with ideas and with the analyses: JS.