On the analysis of mixed longitudinal growth data

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 583-595

  Huggins, R M ^a   Loesch, D Z ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Growth curves; Mixed longitudinal data

Indexed keywords

CUBIC SPLINE; GROWTH CURVES; GROWTH DATA; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCES; LIMITED DATA; LINEAR MODELING; LONGITUDINAL DATA; LONGITUDINAL GROWTH; MIXED LONGITUDINAL DATA; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOMETRY; BODY GROWTH; CHILD; DATA ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0031798979     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3109765     Document Type: Article

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