Rehan Ahmad Khan Sherwani: Role: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draft
Huma Shakeel: Role: SoftwareRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Muhammad Saleem: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: Validation
Wajiha Batool Awan: Role: Data curationRole: Methodology
Muhammad Aslam:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0644-1950
Role: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Muhammad Farooq: Role: SoftwareRole: Validation
Dragan Pamucar: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
19
August
2021
Publication date Collection: 2021
Publication date PMC-release: 19
August
2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 8
Electronic Location Identifier: e0255671
Affiliations
[1
]
College of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
[2
]
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering—Rabigh, King Abdulaziz
University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
[3
]
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia
[4
]
Department of Statistics, Government College University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
University of Defence in Belgrade, SERBIA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-21-13817
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255671
PMC ID: 8376085
PubMed ID: 34411111
SO-VID: ee5bb881-05fd-4196-8af9-bb55a4222559
Copyright © © 2021 Sherwani et al
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Funded by:
king abdulaziz university, saudi arabia
The article was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) at King Abdulaziz
University, Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the authors thank DSR for their technical and
financial support.
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