Methodology for the establishment of growth standards

Hormone Research

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1996, Pages 2-7

  Gasser, Theo ^a,b   Molinari, Luciano ^a   Roos, Malgorzata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ISPM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conditional centiles; Growth standards; Height references; KIGS; Percentiles

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH DISORDER; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 0029888280     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000184840     Document Type: Conference Paper

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