Estimating Growth in Height from Limited Longitudinal Growth Data Using Full-Curves Training Dataset: A Comparison of Two Procedures of Curve Optimization-Functional Principal Component Analysis and SITAR.

A variety of models are available for the estimation of parameters of the human growth curve. Several have been widely and successfully used with longitudinal data that are reasonably complete. On the other hand, the modeling of data for a limited number of observation points is problematic and requ...

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Published in:Children Vol. 8; no. 10; pp. 1 - 22
Main Authors: Králík, Miroslav, Klíma, Ondrej, Cuta, Martin, Malina, Robert M., Kozieł, Sławomir, Polcerová, Lenka, Škultétyová, Anna, Španel, Michal, Kukla, Lubomír, Zemcík, Pavel
Format: Journal Article
Published: MDPI Oct2021
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