Study design: A previously published birth weight prediction equation based on maternal and pregnancy-specific characteristics was used to predict birth weights for 283 normal Caucasian women of Hispanic ethnicity.
Though the hospital has had no reported crimes stemming from published birth announcements, "our policy is our way of assisting in keeping their baby safe," said Anne Surra, admissions supervisor.
The first story Tiptree published, "Birth of a Salesman" (1968), was characteristic of her early stories in that it was a humorous variation on a standard science fiction theme.
Knot selection was determined based on visual inspection of the fit and distributional shape compared to published birth weight data from other settings [ 31, 36- 38].
Our previously published birth weight standards for Western Australia [ 17] excluded only perinatal deaths from the reference sample because other relevant data were not available at the population level.
[ 4- 9] In 1996, Alexander et al. published birth weight curves using a 1991 nationwide United States reference, later updated using 1994 1996 data.[ 10, 11] However, these authors included weights only for the 5th, 10th, 50th, 90th, and 95th percentiles at each completed week of gestation.
