Appendix A — Technical Appendix

Published

Jun 2026

Environment

Code
sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS 26.5

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.12.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] htmlwidgets_1.6.4 compiler_4.4.1    fastmap_1.2.0     cli_3.6.5        
 [5] tools_4.4.1       htmltools_0.5.8.1 yaml_2.3.10       rmarkdown_2.30   
 [9] knitr_1.50        jsonlite_2.0.0    xfun_0.54         digest_0.6.37    
[13] rlang_1.1.6       evaluate_1.0.5