PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J Golding
AU  - N R Butler
AU  - R G Newcombe
TI  - Analysis of completed reproductive histories: a cautionary tale.
AID  - 10.1136/jech.37.1.78
DP  - 1983 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
PG  - 78--81
VI  - 37
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/37/1/78.short
4100  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/37/1/78.full
SO  - J Epidemiol Community Health1983 Mar 01; 37
AB  - Recent authors have suggested that cross-sectional studies of adverse outcome of pregnancy are misleading, and that the only valid method of analysis controls for eventual number of pregnancies. The present study shows, by simple examples, that such a method produces results that cannot be interpreted in the way claimed for them.