Methodische Aspekte der Berechnung von Normwertkurven am Beispiel des Geburtsgewichtes
M. Voigt, V. M. Roemer, C. Fusch, P. Wenzlaff, V. Hesse, H. Krentz · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2005 · Heft 03 · S. 279-283
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Abstract Based on the data of 1.8 million single births taken from the German perinatal census of the years 1995 through to 1997, the percentile distributions for birth weight (3rd, 10th, 50th, 90th, 97th) were presented using different calculation methods. It became apparent that the percentiles calculated using cumulative relative frequency were more suitable for the somatic classification of newborns than the percentiles calculated on the assumption of the existence of a normal distribution of birth weight. However, the difference was smaller than expected. Nevertheless, particularly in the important “lower”…
