Detecting and eliminating erroneous gestational ages: A normal mixture model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 3491-3503

  Platt, Robert W ^a   Abrahamowicz, Michal ^a   Kramer, Michael S ^b   Joseph, K S ^c   Mery, Les ^d   Blondel, Batrice ^a   Brart, Grard ^b   Wen, S W ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODEL; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; RISK; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035892712     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1095     Document Type: Article

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