Accuracy of growth model parameters: Effects of frequency and duration of data collection, and missing information

Growth, Development and Aging

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-54

  Aggrey, Samuel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy of prediction; Growth model; Inadequate data; Missing data

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GROWTH PARAMETER; GROWTH RATE; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COTURNIX; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 47249126275     PISSN: 10411232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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