Trevor Hastie [aut, cre],
  Rahul Mazumder [aut],
  Balasubramanian Narasimhan [ctb]

Chenglong Ye <yexxx323@umn.edu>, Yi Yang <yi.yang6@mcgill.ca>, Yuhong Yang <yyang@stat.umn.edu>

Christian Thine Omuto [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5792-3485>)

Bappa Das [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1286-1492>),
  Debarup Das [aut, ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0706-3392>),
  Mandira Barman [aut, ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7074-2286>),
  Debrup Ghosh [aut, ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4060-6336>)

Dione Pereira Cardoso [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-1844>),
  Paulo Cesar Ossani [aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6617-8085>),
  Junior Cesar Avanzi [aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2455-0325>)

Dylan Beaudette [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2780-4785>),
  Jay Skovlin [aut],
  Stephen Roecker [aut],
  Andrew Brown [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4565-533X>)

Fehim Jeelani Wani [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4427-3540>),
  M. Iqbal Jeelani [aut],
  Shakeel Mir [aut],
  Showkat Maqbool [aut],
  M. Auyoub Bhat [aut],
  Inayat Khan [aut],
  Yasir Hanif [aut],
  Nasir Bashir [aut]

Robert Buchkowski [aut, cre, cph],
  Zoë Lindo [aut],
  Carlos Barreto [aut]

Avijit Ghosh [aut, cph],
  Tanuj Misra [aut, cre, cph],
  Amit Kumar Singh [aut, cph],
  Arun Shukla [aut, cph],
  Saurav Singla [aut, ctb, cph]

Ullrich Dettmann [aut, cre],
  Felix Andrews [ctb] (For the code copied from the hydromad::SCEoptim
    function (Version: 0.9-15) which is not on r-cran
    (https://github.com/floybix/hydromad). The SCEoptim function is
    adapted, and substantially revised from Brecht Donckels MATLAB code
    which is in turn adopted from Qingyun Duans MATLAB code),
  Brecht Donckels [ctb] (For the Matlab code which was adapted and
    reviesed in the hydromad::SCEoptim function.),
  Qingyun Duan [ctb] (For the MATLAB code adapted from Brecht Donkels.)