pct_weight_for_age

Based on tables from WHO: http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/weight_for_age/en/

Provides equations commonly used in clinical
pharmacokinetics and clinical pharmacology, such as equations
for dose individualization, compartmental pharmacokinetics,
drug exposure, anthropomorphic calculations, clinical
chemistry, and conversion of common clinical parameters. Where
possible and relevant, it provides multiple published and
peer-reviewed equations within the respective R function.

Ron Keizer

clinPK

Clinical Pharmacokinetics Toolkit

Jasmine Hughes

Dominic Tong

Kara Woo

InsightRX 

pct_weight_for_age function

<dl><dt>age</dt>
<dd>age in years</dd>
<dt>weight</dt>
<dd>weight in kg. Optional, if specified, will calculate closest percentile and return in list as `percentile`</dd>
<dt>sex</dt>
<dd>either `male` or `female`</dd>
<dt>return_median</dt>
<dd>just return the median expected value</dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>parameters passed to `read_who_table()`</dd></dl>

Arguments

Percentile weight for age for children — pct_weight_for_age

<dl>

<dt>age</dt>
<dd>age in years</dd>


<dt>weight</dt>
<dd>weight in kg. Optional, if specified, will calculate closest percentile and return in list as `percentile`</dd>


<dt>sex</dt>
<dd>either `male` or `female`</dd>


<dt>return_median</dt>
<dd>just return the median expected value</dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>parameters passed to `read_who_table()`</dd>

</dl>

pct_weight_for_age: Percentile weight for age for children

Description

Usage

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Examples