[R] centile reference chart / clildren growth chart - what package/method to use

[John Kane]

I think you have the reference for the lmreg package
wrong.  It looks like it is Carey VJ. LMSqreg: An R
package for Cole–Green reference centile curves, 2002,
http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/∼carey.

The package seems to be available at
http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~carey/vcwww_4.html


--- Niels Steen Krogh <nielssteenkrogh at zitelab.dk>
wrote:

> We are constructing growth charts (age/weight and
> age/length) for children
> with diagnosis that impacts weight/length. 
> 
> But we we don't know how to use R for producing
> growth charts. 
> 
> We are collection data of Age, Weight and Length.
> The data are used to produce diagnosis-specific
> Growth charts (like the CDC
> Growth Charts:
>
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/growthcharts/set1clinical/cj41l017.pdf)
> 
> Data-example is in the UsingR package as
> data(kid.weights).
> 
> In the CDC-papers a LMS approch is described. Cole
> has programmed the
> methology (I guess) in a <R 2.0.0 package called
> lmsqreg:
> """
> > library(lmsqreg)
> Error in library(lmsqreg) : 
> lmsqreg' is not a valid package -- installed <
> 2.0.0?)
> """
> 
> Where to go forward in R.
> Thanks for any "hints". 
> We are using R2.6.0 on win/linux
> 
> /Niels
> 
> 
> 
> Niels Steen Krogh
> Konsulent
> ZiteLab ApS 
>