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Estimation of age-specific reference ranges via smoother AVAS

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 180 KB
Volume: 17
Category: Article
ISSN: 0277-6715
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19980615)17:11<1231::aid-sim832>3.0.co;2-e

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✦ Synopsis

This paper proposes a new non-parametric procedure to estimate age-dependent reference ranges based on Tibshirani's AVAS (additivity and variance stabilization) procedure for non-parametric estimation of transformations for regression. Several examples are given to illustrate the flexibility and applicability of the proposed method; these include alkaline phosphatase in girls, and foot length and head circumference during gestation.

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