About the Authors

Xianglin L. Du

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

Xianglin.L.Du@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Lara M. Simpson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Brian C. Tandy

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

Affiliation Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Judith L. Bettencourt

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Barry R. Davis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.