About the Authors

Chia-Pei Chen

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Hsieh Fushing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Rob Atwill

Affiliation Department of Population, Health and Reproduction/Vet Med Extension, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Patrice Koehl

koehl@cs.ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPC HF RA PK. Performed the experiments: CPC HF. Analyzed the data: CPC HF PK. Wrote the paper: CPC HF PK.