About the Authors

Farnoosh Abbas-Aghababazadeh

Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Mayer Alvo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

David R. Bickel

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dbickel@uottawa.ca

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology Department, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.