Redefining standards for body mass index of the US population based on BRFSS data using mixtures

DOI10.1080/02664763.2016.1168366MaRDI QIDQ5138527zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tatjana Miljkovic, Saleem Shaik, Dragan Miljkovic

Publication date 4 December 2020

Published in Journal of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2016.1168366

zbMATH Keywords

BMImixturesobesity

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Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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