Published on in Vol 14 (2025)
Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are
available at
https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/59916, first published
.

1 South African Medical Research Council/University of Johannesburg Pan African Centre for Epidemics Research Extramural Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
2 Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
*all authors contributed equally
