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New Article from Center Scientists About Estimating Children’s Sleep

Center scientists Sarah Burkart, Michael Beets, Bridget Armstrong, Glenn Weaver, and Elizabeth Adams are among the authors of “Are parent-reported sleep logs essential? A comparison of three approaches to guide open source accelerometry-based nocturnal sleep processing in children” in Journal of Sleep Research.

More information on their article and a link to the full text are available here.

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