About the Authors

Jinhao Zou

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rajesh Talluri

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Data Science, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Sanjay Shete

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

sshete@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

he authors have declared that no competing interests exist.