About the Authors

Bree Cummins

bcummins@tulane.edu

Affiliation Mathematics Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ricardo Cortez

Affiliation Mathematics Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ivo M. Foppa

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Justin Walbeck

Affiliation Mathematics Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

James M. Hyman

Affiliation Mathematics Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BC RC IMF JW JMH. Performed the experiments: BC RC JW. Analyzed the data: BC RC IMF JW JMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC RC IMF JW JMH. Wrote the paper: BC RC IMF JMH. Wrote the software used for the simulations: BC RC JW.