A comparison of different aprroaches for fitting centile curves to birthweight data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2657-2667

  Bonellie, S R ^a   Raab, G M ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIRTH WEIGHT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0030461083     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961230)15:24<2657::AID-SIM417>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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