Creating Composite Indices From Continuous Variables for Research: The Geometric Mean

Overview

Journal Diabetes Care

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2021 Feb 26

PMID 33632725

Citations 4

Authors

Hertzel C Gerstein

Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige

Shrikant I Bangdiwala

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