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a way of building growth reference centiles in which skewness (L), median (M) and coefficient of variation (S) vary smoothly with age.

In pediatrics, LMS method refers to a way of building growth reference centiles in which skewness (L), median (M) and coefficient of variation (S) vary smoothly with age. This meaning comes from Cole (1992) in Statistics in Medicine.[1]

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Recovery means
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References

Cole, T. J., & Green, P. J. (1992). Smoothing reference centile curves: The lms method and penalized likelihood. Statistics in Medicine, 11(10), 1305-1319. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.4780111005

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