Standardizing Anthropometric Measures in Children and Adolescents with New Functions for Egen
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
- Vol. 4 (1), 50-55
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x0100400104
Abstract
A new function for egen has been developed to allow transformation of child anthropometric data to z-scores using the LMS method and the reference data available from the 1990 British Growth Reference and the 2000 US CDC Growth Reference. An additional function allows for children to be categorized according to body mass index (weight/height2) using international cutoff points recommended by the Childhood Obesity Working Group of the International Obesity Taskforce.Keywords
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