https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9239-5721
About the Authors
- Yiyun Chen
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: star.chen@merck.com
Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America
- Craig S. Roberts
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America
- Wanmei Ou
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America
- Tanaz Petigara
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America
- Gregory V. Goldmacher
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Roles Methodology, Validation
Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America
- Nicholas Fancourt
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Roles Data curation, Supervision
Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
- Maria Deloria Knoll
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of International Health, International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
Yiyun Chen, Tanaz Petigara, Wanmei Ou, Craig S. Robert, Gregory V. Goldmacher were employees of Merck & Co., Inc. during the conduct of the study. Maria Deloria Knoll received grant from Merck & Co. to cover expenses related to preparing the PERCH dataset shared for use in the study, and for consulting on the manuscripts. The commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.