Authors' response to: cohort effects explain the increase in autism diagnosis: an identifiability problem of the age-period-cohort model

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¹ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York psb17@columbia.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York psb17@columbia.edu.

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Katherine M Keyes et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Dec.

. 2014 Dec;43(6):1990.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu214. Epub 2014 Oct 31.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York psb17@columbia.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York psb17@columbia.edu.

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Cohort effects explain the increase in autism diagnosis among children born from 1992 to 2003 in California.
Keyes KM, Susser E, Cheslack-Postava K, Fountain C, Liu K, Bearman PS. Keyes KM, et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2012 Apr;41(2):495-503. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyr193. Epub 2011 Dec 7. Int J Epidemiol. 2012. PMID: 22253308 Free PMC article.
Cohort effects explain the increase in autism diagnosis: an identifiability problem of the age-period-cohort model.
Hansen SN, Parner ET. Hansen SN, et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Dec;43(6):1988-9. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu213. Epub 2014 Oct 31. Int J Epidemiol. 2014. PMID: 25361586 No abstract available.

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