A novel method for estimating distributions of body mass index

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ng, Marie ^a,b   Liu, Patrick ^a   Thomson, Blake ^a,c   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; BMI distribution; L BFGS B optimization; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BODY MASS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; OBESITY; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960360761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0076-2     Document Type: Article

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