growthrate-package:
Recovery of gradients from sparsely observed functional data
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.
References
Lopez-Pintado, S. and McKeague, I. W. (2013).
Recovering gradients from sparsely observed functional
data. Biometrics 69, 396-404 (2013).
http://www.columbia.edu/~im2131/ps/growthrate-package-reference.pdf