Minor doc clarifications and code cleanups

[jgabry]

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• Run unit tests
• Declare copyright holder and agree to license (see below)

Summary

Various tiny code cleanups and doc clarifications

Copyright and Licensing

Please list the copyright holder for the work you are submitting
(this will be you or your assignee, such as a university or company):
Jonah Gabry

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license the submitted work under the following licenses:

• Code: BSD 3-clause (https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause)
• Documentation: CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 91.79%. Comparing base (5f6e8c3) to head (24fec36).
⚠️ Report is 10 commits behind head on master.

Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##           master    #1218      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   91.69%   91.79%   +0.10%     
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  Files          15       15              
  Lines        6246     6250       +4     
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+ Hits         5727     5737      +10     
+ Misses        519      513       -6     

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