The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Yasuhisa Fujii is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Urology and the co-authors of this article. To minimize bias, he was excluded from all editorial decision-making related to the acceptance of this article for publication. R code used to generate the results is available from the authors upon reasonable request.
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