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Original Article

Polynomial estimation of the smoothing splines for the new Finnish reference values for spirometry

Annette KainuDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, HUCH Heart and Lung Center, Peijas Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital; Correspondence[email protected]
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Kirsi TimonenDepartment of Clinical Physiology, Central Hospital of Central Finland, Jyväskylä, and Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital and University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Pages 313-318 | Received 15 Nov 2015, Accepted 14 Feb 2016, Published online: 13 Apr 2016

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