growth: Berkeley Growth Study data.

growthR Documentation

Berkeley Growth Study data.

Description

A list containing the heights of 39 boys and 54 girls from age 1 to 18 and the ages at which they were collected.

Format

This list contains the following components:

hgtm

a 31 by 39 numeric matrix giving the heights in centimeters of 39 boys at 31 ages.

hgtf

a 31 by 54 numeric matrix giving the heights in centimeters of 54 girls at 31 ages.

age

a numeric vector of length 31 giving the ages at which the heights were measured.

Details

These data are included here for convenience as they are also available in the "fda" R-package.

Source

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2006,ISBN 978-0-387-22751-1), Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed., Springer, New York.

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2002, ISBN 978-0-387-22465-7), Applied Functional Data Analysis, Springer, New York, ch. 6.

Tuddenham, R. D., and Snyder, M. M. (1954) "Physical growth of California boys and girls from birth to age 18", University of California Publications in Child Development, 1, 183-364.

Ramsay, James O., Wickham, Hadley, Graves, Spencer, and Hooker, Giles (2018)<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fda>, fda: Functional Data Analysis,R package version 2.4.8,


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