Creating unbiased cross-sectional covariate-related reference ranges from serial correlated measurements

Biostatistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 147-154

  Wade, Angela ^a   Kurmanavicius, Juozas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Age related reference ranges; Correlated measurements; Dependence; Serial measures; Unbiased; Z scores

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 57749116480     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxn022     Document Type: Article

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