Bias correction of nutritional status estimates when reported age is used for calculating WHO indicators in children under five years of age

• Autori principali: Amado D Quezada (Autore), Armando García-Guerra (Autore), Leticia Escobar (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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Objective.To assess the performance of a simple correction method for nutritional status estimates in children under five years of age when exact age is not available from the data. Materials and methods. The proposed method was ba- sed on the assumption of symmetry of age distributions within a giv...