Boosting structured additive quantile regression for longitudinal childhood obesity data

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-18

  Fenske, Nora ^a   Fahrmeir, Ludwig ^a   Hothorn, Torsten ^b   Rzehak, Peter ^c   Höhle, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Additive mixed models; Body mass index; Longitudinal quantile regression; Overweight

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL OBESITY; MATERNAL SMOKING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84881643257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijb-2012-0035     Document Type: Article

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