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WHO Child Growth Standards LMS coefficients

Source: R/data.R
who_gs_coeffs.Rd

A set of nested lists containing tables with LMS values for each sex in different combinations of age/length-height/BMI. The list is ordered by acronym first, then by sex.

Source

WHO Child Growth Standards

References

World Health Organisation. 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. Technical report, WHO, Geneva, 2006.

World Health Organisation. WHO child growth standards: head circumference-for-age, arm circumference-for-age, triceps skinfold-for-age and subscapular skinfold-for-age: methods and development. Technical report, WHO, Geneva, 2007.

Examples

names(gigs::who_gs_coeffs)
#> [1] "wfa"  "bfa"  "lhfa" "wfl"  "wfh"  "hcfa" "acfa" "ssfa" "tsfa"
head(gigs::who_gs_coeffs$lhfa$male)
#>   age_days L       M       S
#> 1        0 1 49.8842 0.03795
#> 2        1 1 50.0601 0.03785
#> 3        2 1 50.2359 0.03775
#> 4        3 1 50.4118 0.03764
#> 5        4 1 50.5876 0.03754
#> 6        5 1 50.7635 0.03744