About the Authors
- Henry T. Robertson
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ryals School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- David B. Allison
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* E-mail: dallison@uab.edu
Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ryals School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Clinical Nutrition Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Allison has accepted funds from the following pharmaceutical companies in the last five years: Abbott Laboratories, Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen Inc., Bio Economic Research Associates, VIVUS, Inc, Merck & Co., Inc., Pfizer Inc, Genome Explorations Inc., Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Johnson & Johnson, and subsidiaries of BMS-Mead-Johnson. In addition, he has accepted consulting fees from litigators involving cases related to Eli Lilly and Co.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DBA. Analyzed the data: HTR. Wrote the paper: HTR DBA.