The Fetuses-at-Risk Approach: An Evolving Paradigm

Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Platt, Robert W ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cox proportional hazards model; Fetal mortality; Fetuses at risk; Gestational age; Last menstrual period; Missing data; Neonatal mortality; Perinatal mortality; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387902.003.0073     Document Type: Chapter

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