title: The Authors Respond.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NCCentre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaDepartments of Epidemiology and Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MADepartments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, tvanderw@hsph.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Poole
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shrier
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Tyler
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: VanderWeele
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012306:Risk