The Senior Editor then contacted the authors to inform them of the problems identified in the paper. The authors were asked to
respond to concerns raised and encouraged to send the original data from this paper to the Senior Editor for reanalysis.
The authors did not provide the original data but rather sent a letter replying to the methodology report, along with new analytic results.
These new results were reviewed by a third methodologist (M3) as well as the methodologist who prepared the report (M1). Both
agreed that the re-analysis failed to replicate the results that were originally reported and further supported concerns about serious
reporting errors and model misspecifications and misstatements in the published article. The paper included misreported findings
both for the substantive and alternative models