About the Authors
- Judy S. LaKind
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* E-mail: lakindassoc@comcast.net
Affiliations LaKind Associates, LLC, Catonsville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Michael Goodman
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Daniel Q. Naiman
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Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
JSL consults to both industry and government. DQN is the spouse of JSL. DQN and JSL have published papers previously with support from the Polycarbonate/BPA Global Group of the American Chemistry Council. I (JSL) am the sole proprietor of LaKind Associates, LLC, an environmental consulting practice in Maryland, USA. This does not in any way alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. In fact, all of the data used in the authors' analyses are publicly and freely available via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s web pages. There is no other information to declare related to consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JSL DQN MG. Analyzed the data: DQN. Wrote the paper: JSL MG DQN.