Time trends and forecasts of body mass index from repeated cross-sectional data: A different approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1561-1571

  Majer, Istvan M ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a   Van Baal, Pieter H M ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Demographic forecasting; Health forecasting; Obesity; Prediction intervals

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BOX COX POWER EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; CASE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEE CARTER MODEL; MALE; OBESITY; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SHIFT TO THE RIGHT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876309376     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5558     Document Type: Article

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