/AGD

Analysis of Growth Data

Primary LanguageR

The AGD package implements various tools that aid in the analysis of growth data.

Installation

The AGD package can be installed from CRAN as follows:

install.packages("AGD")

The latest version is can be installed from GitHub as follows:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github(repo = "stefvanbuuren/AGD")

Minimal example

library(AGD)

# What is the SDS of a height of 115 cm at age 5 years
# relative to Dutch references?
# Calculate for boys and girls:
y2z(y = c(115, 115), x = 5, sex = c("M", "F"))
#> [1] 0.424 0.706

# What are the SDS of the IOTF BMI cut-off values for 
# overweight (boys 2-18) relative to Dutch references?
cutoff <- c(
18.41, 17.89, 17.55, 17.42, 17.55, 17.92, 18.44, 19.10, 
19.84, 20.55, 21.22, 21.91, 22.62, 23.29, 23.90, 24.46,  
25.00)
age <- 2:18
z <- y2z(y = cutoff, x = 2:18, sex = "M", ref = nl4.bmi)
plot(age, z, type = "b", xlab = "Age (years", 
     ylab = "SDS IOTF (on Dutch reference)")

Standard deviation score of IOTF overweight cut-off relative to Dutch reference

Standard deviation score of IOTF overweight cut-off relative to Dutch reference