Comparing Reference Charts

✍ Scribed by Thomas H. Scheike; Mei-Jie Zhang; Anders Juul

• Book ID: 101308060
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-3847
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4036(199910)41:6<679::aid-bimj679>3.0.co;2-t

✦ Synopsis

Reference charts are valuable tools for clinicians in their daily work on pediatric clinics. Reference charts are often constructed by smoothing techniques, and in this paper we present a newly developed non-parametric test for comparing these charts.

We illustrate the method by an example. The worked example compares cross-sectional data on height in children from two Danish studies from 1970 and 1990, respectively. The test compares the average height over the range of ages for the two groups.