About the Authors

Muhammad Aslam

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

aslam_ravian@hotmail.com, malbassam@kau.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Ambreen Shafqat

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Financial Mathematics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China

Mohammed Albassam

Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Jean-Claude Malela-Majika

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa

Sandile C. Shongwe

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.