About the Authors

Xinyan Zhang

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

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Data Analytics, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, United States of America

Boyi Guo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Nengjun Yi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

nyi@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.