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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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2013
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4074455/ |