About the Authors

Haitao Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Haitao Pan, Ping Huang

Affiliations Department of Health Statistics, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China, School of Statistics, Xi’an University of Finance and Economics, Xi’an, China

Ping Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haitao Pan, Ping Huang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Zuoren Wang

Affiliation School of Statistics, Xi’an University of Finance and Economics, Xi’an, China

Ling Wang

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Chanjuan Li

jielaixia@yahoo.com (JX); chanjuan-li@sohu.com (CL)

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Jielai Xia

jielaixia@yahoo.com (JX); chanjuan-li@sohu.com (CL)

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HP PH CL JX. Analyzed the data: HP ZW LW JX. Wrote the paper: HP.