Analysis of infant growth curves using multivariate adaptive splines

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 452-459

  Zhang, Heping ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive splines; Longitudinal data; Model selection; Repeated measures; Time dependent covariates

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SPLINE; BODYWEIGHT; COMPLEXES STRUCTURE; DATA SET; GROWTH CURVES; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MODEL SELECTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; REPEATED MEASURES; TIME-DEPENDENT COVARIATES;

CURVE FITTING;

COCAINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; COVARIANCE; GROWTH CURVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0032969891     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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