About the Authors

Benjamin M. Althouse

balthous@jhsph.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Oscar Patterson-Lomba

Affiliation Mathematical, Computational, and Modeling Sciences Center, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Georg M. Goerg

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

Affiliation Département de Physique, de Génie Physique, et d'Optique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BMA, OPL, GMG, LHD. Performed the experiments: BMA, OPL, LHD. Analyzed the data: BMA, OPL, GMG, LHD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMA, OPL, GMG, LHD. Wrote the paper: BMA, OPL, GMG, LHD.