Construction of the World Health Organization child growth standards: Selection of methods for attained growth curves

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-265

  Borghi, Elaine ^a   de Onis, Mercedes ^a   Garza, Cutberto ^b   Van den Broeck, Jan ^c   Frongillo, Edward A ^d   Grummer Strawn, Laurence ^e   Van Buuren, S ^f   Pan, H ^g   Molinari, L ^h   Martorell, Reynaldo ⁱ   Onyango, Adelheid W ^a   Martines, Jose C ^a   Pinol, Alain ^a   Siyam, Amani ^a   Victoria, Cesar G ^k,q   Bhan, Maharaj K ^m   Araújo, Cora Luiza ^k,q   Lartey, Anna ^l   Owusu, William B ^l   Bhandari, Nita ^m   Norum, Kaare R ^n,r   Bjoerneboe, Gunn Elin Aa ^n,r   Mohamed, Ali Jaffer ^o   Dewey, Kathryn G ^p   Belbase, Krishna ^j   Chumlea, Cameron ^s   Cole, Tim ^s   Shrimpton, Roger ^s   Albernaz, Elaine ^k,q   Tomasi, Elaine ^k,q   de Cássia Fossati da Silveira, Rita ^k,q   Nader, Gisele ^k,q   Sagoe Moses, Isabella ^l   Gomez, Veronica ^l   Sagoe Moses, Charles ^l   Taneja, Sunita ^m   Rongsen, Temsunaro ^m   Chetia, Jyotsna ^m   Sharma, Pooja ^m   Bahl, Rajiv ^m   Baerug, Anne ^n,r   Tufte, Elisabeth ^n,r   Alasfoor, Deena ^o   Prakash, Nitya S ^o   Mabry, Ruth M ^o   Al Rajab, Hanadi Jamaan ^o   Helmi, Sahar Abdou ^o   Nommsen Rivers, Laurie A ^p   Cohen, Roberta J ^p   Heinig, M Jane ^p   more..

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b United Nations University (UNU) Office United Nations   (United States)

^c AFRICA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^f TNO   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h Abteilung Wachstum und Entwicklung   (Switzerland)

ⁱ EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNICEF   (United States)

^k FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^m ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

ⁿ OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^o MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Oman)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^r UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^s University of Oslo ^*

more..

Author keywords

Child growth; Growth curves; Kurtosis; Skewness; Smoothing; Standards

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 31344473930     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2227     Document Type: Review

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