Wrinkles induced by the use of smoothing procedures applied to serial growth data

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 187-202

  Lampl, M ^a   Johnson, M L ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GROWTH; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

BIOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032067322     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014469800005572     Document Type: Article

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