Multi-level models for longitudinal growth norms

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 2665-2678

  Pan, Huiqi ^a   Goldstein, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GROWTH; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0030690272     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971215)16:23<2665::AID-SIM711>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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