About the Authors

Ming-Tao Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Tao Li, Gui-Quan Sun

Affiliations Complex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shan’xi, People’s Republic of China, School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shan’xi, People’s Republic of China

Gui-Quan Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Tao Li, Gui-Quan Sun

Affiliation Complex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shan’xi, People’s Republic of China

Laith Yakob

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Huai-Ping Zhu

Affiliations Complex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shan’xi, People’s Republic of China, LAMPS and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Canada

Zhen Jin

jinzhn@263.net (ZJ); zwy0419@126.com (WYZ)

Affiliation Complex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shan’xi, People’s Republic of China

Wen-Yi Zhang

jinzhn@263.net (ZJ); zwy0419@126.com (WYZ)

Affiliation Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Science, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Data curation: ML WYZ. Formal analysis: ML GQS. Investigation: WYZ. Methodology: ML GQS ZJ. Validation: ML. Writing – original draft: ML GQS ZJ. Writing – review & editing: ML GQS LY HPZ ZJ WYZ.