Modelling the effects of maternal socio-demographic characteristics on the preterm and term birth weight distributions in greece using quantile regression

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 375-390

  Verropoulou, Georgia ^a   Tsimbos, Cleon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT; PREMATURE BIRTH;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875915121     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932012000430     Document Type: Article

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