Season of birth contributes to variation in university examination outcomes

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 714-717

  Fieder, Martin ^a   Prossinger, Hermann ^a   Iber, Karoline ^a   Schaefer, Katrin ^a   Wallner, Bernard ^a   Huber, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CHILDBIRTH; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PARTURITION; SEASONS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33748744954     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20539     Document Type: Article

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