About the Authors

Muhammad Riaz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliations Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Ghazala Shah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Malakand, Lower Dir, Chakdara, Pakistan

Muhammad Asif

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

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Malakand, Lower Dir, Chakdara, Pakistan

Asma Shah

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Women University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Kaustubh Adhikari

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Amani Abu-Shaheen

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Publication Center, King Fahad Medical City Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.