R: Tibia Length for One Baby

infantGrowth {fda} | R Documentation

## Tibia Length for One Baby

### Description

Measurement of the length of the tibia for the first 40 days of life for one infant.

### Usage

    data(infantGrowth)

### Format

A matrix with three columns:

- dayage in days

- tibiaLength The average of five measurements of tibia length in millimeters

- sd.length The standard deviation of five measurements of tibia length in millimeters

### Source

Hermanussen, M., Thiel, C., von Bueren, E., de los Angeles Rol. de Lama, M., Perez Romero, A., Ariznavarreta Ruiz, C., Burmeister, J., Tresguerras, J. A. F. (1998) Micro and macro perspectives in auxology: Findings and considerations upon the variability of short term and individual growth and the stability of population derived parameters, Annals of Human Biology, 25: 359-395.

### References

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2006), Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed., Springer, New York.

### Examples

    data(infantGrowth)
    plot(tibiaLength~day, infantGrowth)

[Package fda version 2.4.8 Index]