Quantile regression methods for reference growth charts

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1369-1382

  Wei, Ying ^a   Pere, Anneli ^b   Koenker, Roger ^c   He, Xuming ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth curves; Height; Longitudinal data; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCREENING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33646126916     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2271     Document Type: Article

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