There is an error in the affiliations for the first author. Specifically, #3 was included in error and should not have been indicated. The correct affiliations are as follows:

Rashidul Alam Mahumud^1,2,3*, Khorshed Alam^1,2, Jeff Dunn^1,4,5, Jeff Gow^1,2,61 Health Economics and Policy Research, Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 2 School of Commerce, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD Australia, 3 Health and Epidemiology Research, Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 4 Cancer Research Centre, Cancer Council Queensland, Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia, 5 Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, St Leonards NSW, Australia, 6 School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Additionally, there was an error in the corresponding author’s listed email addresses. Correspondence regarding this article should only be sent to the following email address: rashed.mahumud@usq.edu.au.