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growthrate (version 1.3)

Bayesian reconstruction of growth velocity

Description

A nonparametric empirical Bayes method for recovering gradients (or growth velocities) from observations of smooth functions (e.g., growth curves) at isolated time points.

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install.packages('growthrate')

Monthly Downloads

165

Version

1.3

License

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Maintainer

Ian W McKeague

Last Published

August 13th, 2014

Functions in growthrate (1.3)

cv.growth

cross validation error
growthrate-package

Recovery of gradients from sparsely observed functional data
posteriordistribcurve

posterior mean
height_data

height data
priormeanobs

prior mean
growth

recovery of growth velocities
diffquo

converts height data into difference quotients
new.growth

recovery of growth velocity for a new subject
Khatf

posterior covariance kernel
posteriorobs

posterior mean and covariance at observation times