Differences in birth weight by sex using adjusted quantile distance functions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 2962-2970

  Lehre, Anne Catherine ^a   Laake, Petter ^a   Sexton, Joseph Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adjusted quantile distance function; Birth weight; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTED QUANTILE DISTANCE FUNCTION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL SMOKING; NEWBORN; PARITY; PREECLAMPSIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADJUSTED QUANTILE DISTANCE FUNCTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; SEX DIFFERENCES;

ADULT; BIOSTATISTICS; BIRTH WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORWAY; PARITY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880041698     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5744     Document Type: Article

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