Am J Epidemiol 2003; 158:192.
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Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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THE AUTHORS REPLY
1 Department of Biobehavioral Health, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
2 Center for Developmental and Health Genetics, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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We thank Dr. Peters (1) for his comments on our paper (2). It would be good to have had more information on why people chose not to participate in our study. We have some data on that issue but found that people were generally not that expansive in their reasons; for example, they