Statistical effects of varying sample sizes on the precision of percentile estimates

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 64-74

  Guo, Shumei S ^a,b   Roche, Alex F ^a,b   Cameron Chumlea, W M ^a,b   Johnson, Clifford ^c   Kuczmarski, Robert J ^c   Curtin, Randy ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

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