About the Authors

Meng J. Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Meng J. Zhao, Anne R. Driscoll

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

xiaodongmen@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Anne R. Driscoll

Contributed equally to this work with: Meng J. Zhao, Anne R. Driscoll

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Srijan Sengupta

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Nathaniel T. Stevens

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ronal D. Fricker Jr.

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

William H. Woodall

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.