CDCheight {nftbart}

CDC height for age growth charts

Description

Using the Cole and Green LMS method, here we provide percentiles of height by age and sex based on the US National Center for Health Statistics data for children aged 2 to 17.

Usage

data(CDCheight)

Format

age:	Age in years
sex:	1=male, 2=female
height.XXX:	Height XXXth percentile in cm

References

Cole, Timothy J and Green, Pamela J (1992) Smoothing reference centile curves: the LMS method and penalized likelihood. Statistics in medicine, 11, 1305–1319.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stature by age LMS parameters https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv