Linear spline multilevel models for summarising childhood growth trajectories: A guide to their application using examples from five birth cohorts

Childhood growth is of interest in medical research concerned with determinants and consequences of variation from healthy growth and development. Linear spline multilevel modelling is a useful approach for deriving individual summary measures of growth, which overcomes several data issues (co-linea...

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Main Authors: Howe, Laura D, Tilling, Kate, Matijasevich, Alicia, Petherick, Emily S, Santos, Ana Cristina, Fairley, Lesley, Wright, John, Santos, Iná S., Barros, Aluísio JD, Martin, Richard M, Kramer, Michael S, Bogdanovich, Natalia, Matush, Lidia, Barros, Henrique, Lawlor, Debbie A
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4074455/