To dichotomize or not to dichotomize?

Nutrition

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 610-611

  Ravichandran, Caitlin ^a,b   Fitzmaurice, Garrett M ^a,b,c  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; EVALUATION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 42749084313     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2008.01.016     Document Type: Note

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