title: Response to the letter 'Minimization: not all it's cracked up to be' by Berger.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Lan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: b Department of Health Research & Policy, and Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Phillip W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Lavori
authors.affiliation: a Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA.|c Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Sandra R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.affiliation: a Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma