American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on November 16, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 165(2):232-233; doi:10.1093/aje/kwk095
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THE AUTHORS REPLY
1 Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
2 Department of Health Economics and Management, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
3 Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611
4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94107
5 Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612
(e-mail: lauderdale@health.bsd.uchicago.edu)
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We thank Hale and Do (1) for their comments on our paper (2). The authors suggest that we use multinomial logistic rather than linear regression to model sleep duration since previous studies have found higher