Semiparametric estimation of regression quantiles with application to standardizing weight for height and age in US children

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 533-551

  Heagerty, Patrick J ^a   Pepe, Margaret S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical distribution; Estimating equations; Kernel smoothing; Reference quantiles; Standardizing weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474606     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00170     Document Type: Article

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