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SUBMITTER: Niu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6699761 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The annals of applied statistics 20190301 1
Health exams determine a patient's health status by comparing the patient's measurement with a population reference range, a 95% interval derived from a homogeneous reference population. Similarly, most of the established relation among health problems are assumed to hold for the entire population. We use data from the 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) on four major health problems in the U.S. and apply a joint mean and covariance model to study how the referenc ...[more]