A NEW METHOD FOR CALCULATION OF HEIGHT CENTILES FOR PREADOLESCENT CHILDREN

被引:11
作者
CHINN, S
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[1] Division of Community Health, United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's, St Thomas's Hospitals, London
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10.1080/03014469200002102
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Q98 [人类学];
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030303 ;
摘要
A new method of calculation of cross-sectional attained height centiles is proposed. This exploits the variance-stabilizing transformation, which has the form log(a + b height) up to age 11 years. Residuals of transformed height about the expected value for age are antilogged to give a single Gaussian distribution from which centiles can be calculated. In contrast to previous methods the standard errors of the centiles can be estimated without imprecise adjustment for smoothing. The parameters a and b of the transformation do not need precise estimation and the method can be used for population subgroups from which large samples cannot be obtained.
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