About the Authors

Henk Talma

h.talma@vumc.nl

Affiliation VU University Medical Centre, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO+ -Institute for Health and Care Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Yvonne Schönbeck

Affiliation Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Department of Child Health, Leiden, the Netherlands

Paula van Dommelen

Affiliation Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Department of Statistics, Leiden, the Netherlands

Boudewijn Bakker

Affiliation Leiden University Medical Centre, Department of Pediatrics, Leiden, the Netherlands

Stef van Buuren

Affiliations Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Department of Statistics, Leiden, the Netherlands, University of Utrecht, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Remy A. HiraSing

Affiliation VU University Medical Centre, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO+ -Institute for Health and Care Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT YS PVD BB SVB RAH. Performed the experiments: HT YS PVD SVB. Analyzed the data: PVD SVB YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB RAH. Wrote the paper: HT YS PVD BB SVB RAH.