Modeling birthweight and gestational age distributions: Additive vs. multiplicative processes

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 728-734

  Gage, Timothy B ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTHER; NEGRO; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH WEIGHT; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036828893     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.10089     Document Type: Article

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