About the Authors

Johannes Bracher

Affiliations Chair of Statistics and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

Evan L. Ray

Affiliation School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tilmann Gneiting

Affiliations Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Stochastics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Nicholas G. Reich

nick@schoolph.umass.edu

Affiliation School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.