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For all our analyses we used the ‘Data for Figure 1 of Bowman et al. (2018)’ in the EDGES Data Release, which is available at http://loco.lab.asu.edu/edges/edges-data-release/.
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Hills, R., Kulkarni, G., Meerburg, P.D. et al. Concerns about modelling of the EDGES data. Nature 564, E32–E34 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0796-5
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