About the Authors

Qingzhao Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingzhao Yu, Bin Li

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

qyu@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliation Biostatistics Program, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Bin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingzhao Yu, Bin Li

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.