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Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch (BBB)
Calculating percentiles for distance and velocity based on the NICHD Fetal Growth Standard by the NICHD Fetal Growth Team
- The distance program corresponds directly to percentiles reported in Louis et al. (2015)
- The velocity program produces percentiles corresponding to the percentile of change seen over a fixed time interval of gestational age for each of the important ultrasound biometric measurements (R 48 KB)
Marginal analysis of measurement agreement among multiple raters with non-ignorable missing, by Dr. Z. Chen
Joint analysis of longitudinal and survival data measured on nested time-scales using shared parameter models: an application to fecundity data, by Dr. McLain, R. Sundaram, and Germaine M. Buck Louis