About the Authors

Kyle M. Carter

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics and Data Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States

Meng Lu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics and Data Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States

Qianwen Luo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Hongmei Jiang

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Lingling An

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

anling@email.arizona.edu

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics and Data Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States, Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.