Comparison of four statistical approaches to score child development: A study of Malawian children

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 987-993

  Cheung, Yin Bun ^a,b,f   Gladstone, Melissa ^c,d   Maleta, Ken ^c   Duan, Xiaolian ^b   Ashorn, Per ^b,e  

^a Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Research Unit   (Singapore)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f CTERU   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Child development; Effect size; Evaluation of psychological development; Failure to thrive; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH STATUS; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALAWI; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASCH ANALYSIS; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALAWI; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 48349146199     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02104.x     Document Type: Article

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