About the Authors

Paul Bach

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany, School of Business and Economics, Applied Statistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christine Wallisch

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany, Section for Clinical Biometrics, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Nadja Klein

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Business and Economics, Applied Statistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lorena Hafermann

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany

Willi Sauerbrei

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Ewout W. Steyerberg

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Georg Heinze

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section for Clinical Biometrics, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Geraldine Rauch

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

geraldine.rauch@charite.de

Affiliations Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany

for topic group 2 of the STRATOS initiative

Membership of the STRATOS initiative is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.