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Socio demographic determinants of BMI of Pakistani women: An evidence from PDHS (2017-18) using quantile regression

Asifa Kamal1, Aqsa Asghar Ali2, Sameena Irfan2

  • 1Department of Statistics, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan.

JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
|June 14, 2021
PubMed
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PDHS 2017-18, Ordinary least square, OLS, Quantile regression, model, QR. Body mass index, BMI.

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