American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on October 31, 2007
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwm312
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Delnevo et al. Respond to "Topical Threats to Epidemiology"
From the Department of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Correspondence to Dr. Cristine Delnevo, Department of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences, UMDNJ–School of Public Health, 317 George Street, Suite 209, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (e-mail: delnevo@umdnj.edu).
Received for publication September 11, 2007. Accepted for publication September 21, 2007.
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We appreciate Dr. Dunn's commentary (1) on our paper (2) and agree that epidemiologists must be questioning, flexible, and creative in our methods. Moreover, we feel it is paramount to implement these methods in a rigorous manner. Our research, which analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), highlighted wireless substitution and its impact on health estimates,