Calculation of standard deviation scores adduced from different growth standards (WHO, US, UK, Germany, Italy, China, etc). Therefore, the calculation of SDS-values for different measures like BMI, weight, height, head circumference, different ratios, etc. are easy to carry out. Also, references for laboratory values in children are available: serum lipids, iron-related blood parameters.
Hi, Thank you for making such a wonderful package. I wonder if it is possible to add my own reference tables into the package so that I can draw a growth chart that fit my smaller population?
I currently have a set of tables containing age, sex, mean, standard deviation, percentile values a 5,25,50,75,90.
How to set up the correction for preterm infants when calculating SDS or percentile? It seems that we can use the kro.ref. Can you provide a example code? Or shall we set the age of preterm infants as negative values?
Hi
Whenever I run the sds(.) with ref = ukwho and item ='bmi' I get a series 8 of identical warnings "In regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm) :
collapsing to unique 'x' values"
It does however produce a value which looks credible.
I am not getting this message with height or weight or with other references (such as uk1990)
Any ideas? Should the results still be reliable despite the warnings