Estimation of population percentiles

Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 750-751

  Schoonjans, Frank ^a,b   De Bacquer, Dirk ^c   Schmid, Pirmin ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b MedCalc Software bvba ^*  (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION PERCENTILE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 80051520186     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318225c1de     Document Type: Letter

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