Spline and Smoothing Approaches to Fitting Flexible Models for the Analysis of Pulmonary Function Data
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicinePublished 1 December 1996
David Wypij
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This paper reanalyzes data from Gold and colleagues on 5,250 white girls aged 6 to 18 who had two or more FVC measurements on Asthma/wheeze status of the child at each observation compared with the group of children with no wheeze or asthma history.
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"Spline and Smoothing Approaches to Fitting Flexible Models for the Analysis of Pulmonary Function Data." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 154(6_pt_2), pp. S223–S228
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