The R package mice imputes incomplete multivariate data by chained equations. The software
mice 1.0 appeared in the year 2000 as an S-PLUS library, and in 2001 as an R package. …

The use of the Gibbs sampler with fully conditionally specified models, where the distribution
of each variable given the other variables is the starting point, has become a popular …

The aim of this study was to present age references for waist circumference (WC), hip
circumference (HC), and waist/hip ratio (WHR) in Dutch children. Cross-sectional data were …

Recently, the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ) version 0.2 was developed
using Rasch analysis. The goal of the current study was to improve targeting of the IWPQ …

Multiple imputation (Rubin, 1987, 1996) is the method of choice for complex incomplete
data problems. Schafer (1999) contains introductory material about the use of multiple …

Objective To provide cross-sectional height and head circumference (HC) references for
healthy Dutch children with Down syndrome (DS), while considering the influence of …

The addition of probiotics to infant formula has been shown to be an efficient way to increase
the number of beneficial bacteria in the intestine in order to promote a gut flora resembling …

Background: People from Asian populations are generally shorter than other ethnic groups.
It is unknown if current universal height references are suitable for affluent South Asian …

Imputation of incomplete questionnaire items should preserve the structure among items
and the correlations between scales. This paper explores the use of fully conditional …

Background Morbid obesity can be a life threatening condition. The aim of our study is to
assess the trend in morbid obesity in The Netherlands among children of Dutch origin since …