About the Authors

Victoria Stodden

victoria@stodden.net

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Peixuan Guo

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Zhaokun Ma

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS. Performed the experiments: VS PG ZM. Analyzed the data: VS PG ZM. Wrote the paper: VS.