About the Authors

Jie Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Zhu, Braja Gopal Patra

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Braja Gopal Patra

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Zhu, Braja Gopal Patra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Hulin Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ashraf Yaseen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Ashraf.Yaseen@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.