Figure 1From: First growth curves based on the World Health Organization reference in a Nationally-Representative Sample of Pediatric Population in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): the CASPIAN-III study BMI-for-age smoothed z-score histogram for Iranian children, aged 10–19 years. (Male: dashed, Female: dash-dotted, and WHO reference 2007: solid line). The BCPE smoothing parameters were BCPE (λ=0.8, df(μ)=8, df(σ)=4, df(ν)=4, τ=2) for males and BCPE (λ=1, df(μ)=8, df(σ)=3, df(ν)=4, τ=2) for femalesBack to article page