| Acknowledgments and references |
Acknowledgments
PAST was inspired by and includes many functions found in PALSTAT (Ryan et al. 1995), which was programmed by P.D. Ryan with assistance from J.S. Whalley. Harper thanks the Danish Science Research Council (SNF) for support.
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