About the Authors

Sarafa A. Iyaniwura

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

iyaniwura@math.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Musa Rabiu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Jummy F. David

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Fields-CQAM Laboratory of Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH), York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jude D. Kong

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (LIAM), York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.