Volume 32 - Article 39 | Pages 1081–1098
The reliability of in-home measures of height and weight in large cohort studies: Evidence from Add Health
By Jon Hussey, Quynh C. Nguyen, Eric A. Whitsel, Liana J. Richardson, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Joyce W. Tabor, Pamela P. Entzel, Kathleen Harris
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