British 1990 growth reference centiles for weight, height, body mass index and head circumference fitted by maximum penalized likelihood

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 407-429

  Cole, T J ^a   Freeman, J V ^b   Preece, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CURVE FITTING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMATURITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032574329     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980228)17:4<407::AID-SIM742>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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