expwt: Calculate expected weight for under-5 children.

View source: R/expwt.R

expwtR Documentation

Calculate expected weight for under-5 children.

Description

Calculate expected weight in under-5 children. Expected weight is defined as that weight which would result in a weight-for-age z-score of 0 based on age and sex.

Usage

expwt(data, units = c("months", "years", "weeks"))

Arguments

data

A data frame or data frame extension with AGE and SEX columns.

units

Units for age. Default is "months".

Value

A tibble::tibble() with an appended column, EXPWT, containing the expected weight,

Author(s)

Sandy Floren


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