Statistical considerations for the development of prescriptive fetal and newborn growth standards in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 120, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2013, Pages 71-76

  Altman, D G ^a   Ohuma, E O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fetal growth; INTERGROWTH 21st; Longitudinal study; Prescriptive standards; Sample size; Statistical aspects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEWBORN; PRESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS, INTERGROWTH-21ST; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FETAL GROWTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS, INTERGROWTH-21ST; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ASPECTS;

BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84887637735     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.12031     Document Type: Article

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