About the Authors

Anoop Shankar

ashankar@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Shirmila Syamala

Affiliation Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Sita Kalidindi

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Statistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: AS SK. Wrote the paper: AS SS.