Analysis of growth curves via mixtures

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 3641-3654

  Rosen, Ori ^a   Cohen, Ayala ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management   (Israel)

Author keywords

Growth curves; Mixtures of experts

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0344035228     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1582     Document Type: Article

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