Optimal treatment of replicate measurements in anthropometric studies

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 507-510

  Villamor, Eduardo ^a   Bosch, Ronald J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOSTATISTICS IN AIDS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; measurement error; median; replicate measures

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SAFETY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84942907141     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2014.969488     Document Type: Article

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