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Methods in human growth research / edited by Roland C. Hauspie, Noël Cameron, Luciano Molinari

Hauspie, Roland ; Cameron, Noël ; Molinari, Luciano

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

Online-Ressource (xiv, 399 p) : ill

Englisch

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Why study child growth and maturation?; 2 The human growth curve: distance, velocity and acceleration; 3 Sampling for growth studies and using growth data to assess, monitor and survey disease in epidemiological settings; 4 Measuring growth; 5 Measuring maturity; 6 Measuring body composition; 7 Kernel estimation, shape-invariant modelling and structural analysis; 8 Parametric models for postnatal growth; 9 Parameter estimation in the context of non-linear longitudinal growth models

10 Univariate and bivariate growth references11 Latent variables and structural equation models; 12 Multilevel modelling; 13 Methods for the study of the genetics of growth and development; 14 Prediction; 15 Ordinal longitudinal data analysis; Index

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Methods in Human Growth Research

0-521-82050-2 ; 0-511-21062-0

978-0-521-82050-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

GN62.9

559.9/01     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Human growth -- Longitudinal studies ; Physical anthropology -- Methodology ; Human growth -- Research ; Human growth -- Statistical methods ; Population research

Human growth ; Research ; Electronic books

This volume is a review of up-to-date methods used in human growth research. Aimed at junior and senior researchers in human biology, anthropology, epidemiology and paediatrics, it provides a minimum of the mathematics behind the methods, and focuses on concepts, possibilities, limitations and applications