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Relationship between parameters of early growth in Israeli infants.
Homo : internationale Zeitschrift fur die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen - 1 Jan 2002
Peter I, Yakovenko K, Livshits G
Abstract excerpt
A sample of 1931 Israeli infants was measured for body weight (WT), length (HT) and head circumference (HC) for approximately 2 years. The Count model with 3 parameters was chosen as the best fitting and most parsimonious function to approximate growth of all 3 studied traits. In the model parameter a relates to birth indices, b--to velocity of growth, and c--to rapid early childhood growth, or acceleration....
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