About the Authors

Kazushi Maruo

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

maruo@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yusuke Yamaguchi

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostatistics, Data Science, Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc., Northbrook, Illinois, United States of America

Ryota Ishii

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Masahiko Gosho

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.