## 2 Materials and Methods
### Limit-Data Generating Process
#### 2.2.1 Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique-Nominal Continuous (SmoteNC)
Conceptualization, C.-H.C.; methodology, C.-H.C.; software, C.-H.C.; validation, C.-H.C.; formal analysis, C.-H.C. and C.-K.T. ; investigation, C.-H.C.; resources, C.-H.C. and C.-K.T. ; data curation, C.-H.C.; writing--original draft preparation, C.-H.C.; writing--review and editing, C.-K.T., S.-S.Y. and C.-H.C.; visualization, C.-H.C.; supervision, S.-S.Y. ; project administration, C.-H.C.; funding acquisition, C.-H.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This research was funded by Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China grant number MOST 109-2221-E-167-030-MY3. The authors declare no conflict of interest. ## References

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