Threshold hypotheses, developmental age, and menstrual function
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Vol. 54 (3) , 337-340
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330540306
Abstract
Hypotheses relating the onset and maintenance of menstrual function to threshold levels of various parameters were subject to statistical critique. Analysis of trends in parameter variance, applied here to data from the Berkeley Guidance Study, discriminates between the predictions of such hypotheses and those of the more traditional concept of developmental age.Keywords
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