fda (version 6.1.8)

infantGrowth: Tibia Length for One Baby

Description

Measurement of the length of the tibia for the first 40 days of life for one infant.

Usage

data(infantGrowth)

Format

A matrix with three columns:

day

age in days

tibiaLength

The average of five measurements of tibia length in millimeters

sd.length

The standard deviation of five measurements of tibia length in millimeters

References

Ramsay, James O., Hooker, Giles, and Graves, Spencer (2009), Functional data analysis with R and Matlab, Springer, New York.

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2005), Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed., Springer, New York.

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2002), Applied Functional Data Analysis, Springer, New York.

Hermanussen, M., Thiel, C., von Bueren, E., de los Angeles Rol. de Lama, M., Perez Romero, A., Arizonavarreta Ruiz, C., Burmeister, J., Tresguerras, J. A. F. (1998) Micro and macro perspectives in auxology: Findings and considerations upon the variability of short term and individual growth and the stability of population derived parameters, Annals of Human Biology, 25: 359-395.

Examples

data(infantGrowth)
oldpar <- par(no.readonly=TRUE)
plot(tibiaLength~day, infantGrowth)
par(oldpar)