A comparison of statistical methods for age-related reference intervals

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-69

  Wright, Eileen M ^a,b   Royston, Patrick ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centile estimation; Density estimation; Nonparametric quantile regression; Normal distribution; Normal ranges; Normalizing transformations; Reference intervals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039860787     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00045     Document Type: Review

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