About the Authors

Caroline J. Wendt

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

G. Brooke Anderson

Brooke.Anderson@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GBA was previously a volunteer associate editor at ROpenSci and is an instructor through the Coursera platform, both of which are mentioned as potential resources in this article. The views described here reflect the authors’ own views without input from any third-party organization.