About the Authors

Oscar Ngesa

oscanges@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Henry Mwambi

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Thomas Achia

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ON HM TA. Analyzed the data: ON. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: ON HM TA.