About the Authors
- Ming-Wen An
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* E-mail: mian@vassar.edu
Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Nicholas G. Reich
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Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Stephen O. Crawford
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Current address: WellPoint, Columbia, Maryland, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Ron Brookmeyer
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Thomas A. Louis
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Kenrad E. Nelson
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
S.O. Crawford is employed by WellPoint. This affiliation neither affected the work in this submission (which was done while Crawford was a student at Johns Hopkins) nor does it alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: M-WA NGR SOC RB TAL KEN. Analyzed the data: M-WA NGR SOC. Wrote the paper: M-WA NGR SOC RB TAL KEN. Developed/programmed the simulator: M-WA.