About the Authors

Maike Tahden

Affiliations Biometry and Data Management, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, Bremen, Germany, Department of Psychology and Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Juliane Manitz

Affiliation Department for Statistics and Econometrics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Klaus Baumgardt

Affiliation Division for Environmental Monitoring, Institut fuer Hygiene und Umwelt, Hamburg, Germany

Gerhard Fell

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Institut fuer Hygiene und Umwelt, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Kneib

Affiliation Department for Statistics and Econometrics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Guido Hegasy

hegasy@gmx.de

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Institut fuer Hygiene und Umwelt, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GF TK GH. Data curation: MT JM. Formal analysis: MT JM TK GH. Investigation: MT JM TK GH. Methodology: GF TK GH. Project administration: TK GH. Resources: KB GF. Software: MT JM KB TK. Supervision: TK GH. Validation: MT JM TK GH. Visualization: MT GH. Writing – original draft: MT JM KB GF TK GH. Writing – review & editing: MT JM TK GH.