About the Authors

Jong Soo Lee

jongsoo_lee@uml.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Issa F. Zakeri

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nancy F. Butte

Affiliation USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JSL IZ NB. Data curation: IZ NB. Formal analysis: JSL IZ. Funding acquisition: NB. Investigation: IZ NB. Methodology: JSL IZ. Project administration: NB. Resources: NB. Software: JSL. Supervision: NB. Validation: JSL IZ NB. Visualization: JSL. Writing – original draft: JSL. Writing – review & editing: JSL IZ NB.