About the Authors

Paul J. McMurdie

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Susan Holmes

susan@stat.stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Designed and wrote the software described: PJM. Conceived and designed the experiments: PJM SH. Performed the experiments: PJM SH. Analyzed the data: PJM SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJM SH. Wrote the paper: PJM SH.