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Feasibility and validity of a statistical adjustment to reduce self-report bias of height and weight in wave 1 of the Add Health study

BACKGROUND: Bias in adolescent self-reported height and weight is well documented. Given the importance and widespread use of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data for obesity research, we developed and tested the feasibility and validity of an empirically d...

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Autores principales: Liechty, Janet M., Bi, Xuan, Qu, Annie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27658820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-016-0227-y