About the Authors

Filippo Trentini

Affiliation University Centre of Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

Yuan Ji

jiyuan@uchicago.edu

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Research Informatics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Takayuki Iwamoto

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Yuan Qi

Affiliation Division of Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lajos Pusztai

Affiliation Chief of Breast Medical Oncology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Peter Müller

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP YQ TI. Performed the experiments: LP YQ TI. Analyzed the data: FT YJ PM. Wrote the paper: FT.