Nyasha,
Thanks for your further explanation of what you want to do. You can
easily adapt the NM-TRAN code for the model for WT based on PMA in order
to compare your PMA-SEX-WT data you have with the model predictions.
I looked at the 3 papers you mention below -- Beath describes a model
for
Hi Nick and Joe,
Thank you very much for your responses. Well, I must say I'm a real beginner
in modelling and this is my first attempt at growth curve modelling. I was
of the idea that growth curves have been developed and in use for quite
sometime and hence it would be possible to find a functio
Hi,
Thank you Joe for noticing the recent publication of a quantitative
model relating age and sex to weight across the human life span (Sumpter
& Holford 2011).
The WHO growth charts are just that -- charts i.e. a picture with some
lines on it. The model that Anita and I have proposed is qu
Nyashadzaishe,
UK and I believe WHO growth charts are derived using LMS method which you can
do in R - look for papers by TJ Cole. I also suspect you might get a response
from a certain NHG Holford telling you to look at his NONMEM method: Paediatr
Anaesth. 2011 Mar;21(3):309-15 - I have only s
