Construction of multivariate centile charts for longitudinal measurements

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 333-345

  Thompson, Mary Lou ^a,b   Fatti, L Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Epidemiology Research Unit   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUE;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031023420     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970228)16:4<333::AID-SIM416>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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