About the Authors

Jong-Min Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Statistics Discipline, Division of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN, United States of America

Namgil Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

namgil.lee@kangwon.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Information Statistics, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon, South Korea

Xingyao Xiao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Applied Statistics and Psychometrics, Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.