Modeling menstrual cycle length using a mixture distribution

Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-114

  Guo, Ying ^a   Manatunga, Amita K ^a   Chen, Shande ^b   Marcus, Michele ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Estimating equation; Kernel density estimation; Menstrual cycle length; Mixture distribution; Optimum cutoff

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 29344439869     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxi043     Document Type: Article

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