About the Authors

Giorgos Bakoyannis

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, 410 West 10th Street, Suite 3000, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States of America

Constantin T. Yiannoutsos

cyiannou@iupui.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, 410 West 10th Street, Suite 3000, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB. Performed the experiments: GB. Analyzed the data: GB. Wrote the paper: CTY GB. Provision of the data for the illustration: CTY. Derivation of the estimator and simulation study: GB.