WHO child growth standards
Subtitle: growth velocity based on weight, length and head circumference : methods and development
Publisher: World Health Organization, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Geneva, Swtizerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789241547635
Subjects: Child development; Body Weights and Measures; Statistics & numerical data; Methods; Standards; Child Development; Growth; Reference Standards; Child; Anthropometry; Children
Other titles: World Health Organization child growth standards; Growth velocity based on weight, length and head circumference
Notes: "The WHO Child Growth Standards were constructed by the Coordinating Team in the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development of the World Health Organization."--P. iv.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238).

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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Methodology; title: 3. Construction of the weight velocity standards; title: 4. Construction of the length velocity standards; title: 5. Construction of the head circumference velocity standards; title: 6. Computation of centiles and z-scores for velocities based on weight, length and head circumference; title: 7. Discussion; title: 8. Bibliography; title: Appendix B Model specifications of the WHO child growth velocity standards; title: Appendix C Results from analyses related to regression to the mean.