Evaluation of Bias in Estimates of Early Childhood Obesity From Parent-Reported Heights and Weights | Zendy

Michael S. Rendall | Zendy; Margaret M. Weden | Zendy; Christopher Lau | Zendy; Peter Brownell | Zendy; Zafar Nazarov | Zendy; Meenakshi Fernandes | Zendy

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Evaluation of Bias in Estimates of Early Childhood Obesity From Parent-Reported Heights and Weights

Author(s) -

Michael S. Rendall,

Margaret M. Weden,

Christopher Lau,

Peter Brownell,

Zafar Nazarov,

Meenakshi Fernandes

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302001

Subject(s) - percentile , obesity , body mass index , medicine , national health and nutrition examination survey , demography , childhood obesity , information bias , selection bias , statistics , environmental health , overweight , population , mathematics , pathology , sociology

We evaluated bias in estimated obesity prevalence owing to error in parental reporting. We also evaluated bias mitigation through application of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's biologically implausible value (BIV) cutoffs.

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