Standardizing anthropometric measures in children and adolescents with functions for egen: Update

Stata Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 366-378

  Vidmar, Suzanna I ^a   Cole, Tim J ^b   Pan, Huiqi ^b  

^a MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anthropometric standards; dm0004_1; egen; LMS; z scores; zanthro(); zbmicat()

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880053254     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1301300211     Document Type: Article

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