About the Authors

Mei Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Mei Dong, Longhai Li

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Longhai Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Mei Dong, Longhai Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Man Chen

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Anthony Kusalik

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Wei Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wxu@uhnres.utoronto.ca

Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Biostatistics, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.