The impact of random-effect misspecification on percentile estimation for longitudinal growth data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 3708-3718

  Cheon, Kyeongmi ^a   Albert, Paul S ^a   Zhang, Zhiwei ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional misspecification; Longitudinal data; Percentile estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RANDOM EFFECT DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870236422     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5437     Document Type: Article

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