About the Authors

Shaik Ahamed Fayaz

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

Affiliations Department of Statistics, ICMR ‐ National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India, University of Madras, Chennai, India

Lakshmanan Babu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, India

Loganathan Paridayal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Madras Christian College, Chennai, India

Mahalingam Vasantha

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, ICMR ‐ National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Palaniyandi Paramasivam

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Statistics, ICMR ‐ National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Karuppasamy Sundarakumar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Statistics, ICMR ‐ National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Chinnaiyan Ponnuraja

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

cponnuraja@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Statistics, ICMR ‐ National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India, University of Madras, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.