Description Usage Format Source Examples
World Health Organization (WHO) Growth Reference (2006) data
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A data frame with 6 columns and 2338 rows.
Variable | Description |
indicator | One of weight-for-age (waz ), height-for-age (haz ), or weight-for-height (whz ) anthropometric indicators |
sex | Sex of child (1 = Male; 2 = Female) |
given | Variable to which standardisation is to be made. For waz and haz , given is age in months. For whz , given is height in cm |
l | L component of the LMS method for normalising growth centile standards. L is the trend in the optimal power to obtain normality |
m | M component of the LMS method for normalising growth centile standards. M is the trend in the mean |
s | S component of the LMS method for normalising growth centile standards. S is the trend in the coefficient of variation |
World Health Organization. WHO Child Growth Standards: Length/Height-for-age, Weight-for-age, Weight-for-length, Weight-for-height, and Body Mass Index-for age: Methods and Development. 1st ed. World Health Organization; 2006.
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