Open AccessThrowing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
Author(s) -
Christine L. Gray,
Whitney R. Robinson
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000000111
Subject(s) - obesity , shrinkage , medicine , gold standard (test) , throwing , pediatrics , mathematics , statistics , endocrinology , mechanical engineering , engineering
In childhood obesity research, the appearance of height loss, or "shrinkage," indicates measurement error. It is unclear whether a common response--excluding "shrinkers" from analysis--reduces bias.