Modeling fetal weight for gestational age: A comparison of a flexible multi-level splinebased model with other approaches

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Villandré, Luc ^a   Hutcheon, Jennifer A ^b   Trejo, Maria Esther Perez ^a   Abenhaim, Haim ^a   Jacobsen, Geir ^c   Platt, Robert W ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

fetal growth; Multi level models; small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; SCANDINAVIA; SEX FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80052471195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1305     Document Type: Article

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