1Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
2Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
3Center for Liver Diseases, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
4School of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
5Department of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
6Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Yangming Campus, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
7Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
8Institute of Clinical Medicine, Yangming Campus, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
9Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
10Biomedical Translation Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
11Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
12Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
13Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
✉Address for correspondence. Yen-Tsung Huang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, No.128, Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan (e-mail: ythuang@stat.sinica.edu.tw).