Measuring obesity in the absence of a gold standard

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 17, Issue , 2015, Pages 116-128

  O'Neill, Donal ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Latent class analysis; Multiple diagnostic tests; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; BLACK PERSON; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; ELASTICITY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FAT FREE MASS; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH HAZARD; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUSCLE MASS; OBESITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926391061     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: 18736130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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