To ensure homogenous handling of data and identical analyses, all cohorts received a standard operating procedure that specified details of the comorbidity analyses. Following the SOP average scores and Pearson correlations for aggression with all other scales assessing psychopathology was obtained by a local analyst using their preferred statistical software. Average scores and correlations were computed by gender and age of children, separately for each rater and country. Results were uploaded to a shared server. Given the large datasets included in these analyses, leading to significance even if differences between average scores or between correlations being relatively small, we interpreted all results relative to each other and took the 95% confidence intervals into account. With the multi-instrument, multi-rater and multi-age assessments of aggression and of other emotional and behavioural problems, we established whether co-occurrence was stronger or weaker given different measurement instruments, raters and ages.
