RF and MC contributed conception and design of the study; RF obtained access to the dataset, performed the statistical analysis and wrote the first draft of the manuscript; NM contributed to methodology. All authors contributed to manuscript revision, read and approved the submitted version.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
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Availability of data and materials
The dataset analyzed for this study is maintained by the Computing in the Humanities and Social Science (CHASS) at the University of Toronto available from: http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca/
Funding
This work was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Catalyst Grant #172898. The funder had no role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, writing the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.
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