Maternal age and infant mortality: A test of the Wilcox-Russell hypothesis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 294-303

  Gage, Timothy B ^a   Fang, Fu ^a   O'Neill, Erin ^a   Stratton, Howard ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Infant mortality; Latent variable; Logistic regression; Mixture of normal distributions

Indexed keywords

AGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFANT MORTALITY; LOGISTICS; MATERNAL HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEW YORK; PARITY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 59649129642     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn308     Document Type: Article

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