The comparison of mixed distribution analysis with a three-criteria model as a method for estimating the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia in Costa Rican children aged 12-23 months | Zendy

Jeffrey H. Cohen | Zendy; Jere D. Haas | Zendy

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The comparison of mixed distribution analysis with a three-criteria model as a method for estimating the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia in Costa Rican children aged 12-23 months

Author(s) -

Jeffrey H. Cohen,

Jere D. Haas

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/28.1.82

Subject(s) - puerto rican , medicine , iron deficiency , population , gold standard (test) , statistics , distribution (mathematics) , standard deviation , gastroenterology , demography , mathematics , anemia , environmental health , mathematical analysis , sociology , anthropology

A maximum likelihood method of mixed distribution analysis (MDA) is presented as a method to estimate the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in Costa Rican infants 12-23 months old. MDA characterizes the parameters of the admixed distributions of iron deficient anaemics and non-iron-deficient-anaemics (NA) from the frequency distribution of haemoglobin concentration of the total sample population.

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