About the Authors

Shane J. Sacco

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Kun Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Fei Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Robert Aseltine

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

aseltine@uchc.edu

Affiliation Division of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.