growthrate-package {growthrate}

Recovery of gradients from sparsely observed functional data

Description

A nonparametric empirical Bayes method for recovering gradients (or growth velocities) from observations of smooth functions (e.g., growth curves) at isolated time points.

References

Lopez-Pintado, S. and McKeague, I. W. (2013). Recovering gradients from sparsely observed functional data. Biometrics 69, 396-404 (2013). http://www.columbia.edu/~im2131/ps/growthrate-package-reference.pdf