berkeley {sitar}

The Berkeley Child Guidance Study

Description

The Berkeley Child Guidance Study dataset contains longitudinal anthropometry data for 136 children from birth to 21 years.

Usage

berkeley

Format

A data frame with 4884 observations on the following 10 variables:

id

factor with levels 201-278 male and 301-385 female

age

years, numeric vector

height

cm, numeric vector

weight

kg, numeric vector

stem.length

cm, numeric vector

bi.acromial

cm, numeric vector

bi.iliac

cm, numeric vector

leg.circ

cm, numeric vector

strength

lb, numeric vector

sex

factor with level 1 male and level 2 female

Details

The data are for 66 boys and 70 girls from Berkeley, California born in 1928-29 of north European ancestry, and followed from birth to 21 years. Measurements were at ages 0, 0.085, 0.25 to 2 (3-monthly), 2 to 8 (annually), and 8 to 21 (6-monthly) years.

The children were measured for height, weight (undressed), stem length, biacromial diameter, bi-iliac diameter, leg circumference, and dynamometric strength. The data were provided as an appendix to the book by Tuddenham and Snyder (1954), and a few transcription errors are corrected here. A further 19 errors in height and weight as reported in sitar issue #7 are also now corrected. The growth dataset in the fda package uses heights from the same study.

References

Tuddenham RD, Snyder MM. Physical growth of California boys and girls from birth to eighteen years. University of California Publications in Child Development 1954;1:183-364.

Examples

data(berkeley)
## frequencies of age of measurement for each variable
## weight and length/height from birth, other variables from 6-8 years
## few measurements after 18 years
. <- as.factor(berkeley$age)
plot(levels(.), summary(.), type='s', las=1,
  xlab='age of measurement (years)', ylab='frequency of measurements')
points(levels(.), levels(.) < 0, pch=15)
for (i in 3:9) {
  .. <- .[!is.na(berkeley[, names(berkeley)[i]])]
  lines(levels(..), summary(..), type='s', col=i)
}
legend('topright', names(berkeley)[c(3:9)], text.col=c(3:9), bty='n', inset=0.04)