About the Authors

Baojiang Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Baojiang.Chen@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health in Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Morshed Alam

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.