Multiple imputayion for body mass index: Lessons from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Womens Health

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3077-3087

  Mishra, Gita D ^a   Dobson, Annette J ^b  

^a MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health; Bias correction; Body mass index; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; MIDDLE AGED;

AUSTRALIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 4444342509     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1911     Document Type: Article

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