Classification of births by birth weight and gestational age: An application of multivariate mixture models

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 589-604

  Gage, Timothy B ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; ETHNICITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141459010     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460310001592678     Document Type: Article

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