About the Authors
- Christian Röver
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Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Richard Nicholas
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Affiliation Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Sebastian Straube
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Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2T4, Canada
- Tim Friede
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* E-mail: tim.friede@med.uni-goettingen.de
Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Competing Interests
CR has declared that no competing interests exist. RN has received honoraria for speaking fees for advisory boards or search funds from Bayer, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, TEVA and NICE. SS declares honoraria from Oxford Medical Knowledge and advisory board fees from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. TF is a consultant to Novartis, Biogen, Grünenthal, Bayer, Vertex, Janssen, and AstraZeneca. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TF. Performed the experiments: CR RN SS. Analyzed the data: CR TF. Wrote the paper: CR RN SS TF.