About the Authors

Benedetta Pongiglione

benedetta.pongiglione@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical Statistics Department, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Bianca L. De Stavola

Affiliation Medical Statistics Department, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

George B. Ploubidis

Affiliation Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BP BLD GBP. Analyzed the data: BP BLD GBP. Wrote the paper: BP BLD GBP.