About the Authors
- Meredith T. Niles
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: mtniles@uvm.edu
Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America, Food Systems Program, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
- Benjamin F. Emery
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
- Andrew J. Reagan
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation MassMutual Data Science, Amherst, MA, United States of America
- Peter Sheridan Dodds
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Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
- Christopher M. Danforth
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors declare the following interests: MTN is a member of the board of directors of The Public Library of Science (PLOS). This role has in no way influenced the outcome or development of this work or the peer-review process. After the research for this paper was completed, AR became employed by the commercial company, Mass Mutual (https://www.massmutual.com/). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.