| Keywords and phrases: menarche, puberty, menstruation, Poisson distribution, Nigeria, girls, probability.
Received: October 24, 2020; Revised: July 27, 2022; Accepted: August 10, 2022; Published: August 27, 2022
How to cite this article: Hilary I. Okagbue, Tomike I. Olawande, Oluwole A. Odetunmibi and Abiodun A. Opanuga, Mean age of menarche and the probability of attaining menarche for Nigerian girls, JP Journal of Biostatistics 21 (2022), 89-102. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0973514322022
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