Presenting information on growth distance and conditional velocity in one chart: Practical issues of chart design

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 2697-2707

  Cole, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032534563     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981215)17:23<2697::AID-SIM36>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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