Developing reference data for nerve conduction studies: An application of quantile regression

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 763-771

  Peng, Limin ^a   Wuu, Joanne ^b   Benatar, Michael ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nerve conduction studies; Neurophysiology; Normative data; Quantile regression; Reference data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTILE REGRESSION; REFERENCE DATABASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 71549117066     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21489     Document Type: Article

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