Product Details
GROWTH: Functional Data Analysis of the human height postnatal growth
Created: 2021
Králík Miroslav, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (VUT)
Čuta Martin, Mgr., Ph.D.
Zemčík Pavel, prof. Dr. Ing., dr. h. c. (DCGM)
growth, fpca, sitar, R
A computer program for modelling and predicting child growth, particularly
height, in the form of an on-line application and package (growthfd
(https://ondrej-klima.github.io/growthfd/)) executable in R. The aim of the
architectural design was to develop software that was both easy to use and
practical for paediatricians and suitable for the research community to perform
batch analysis of large and diverse datasets. Therefore, the front-end was
designed as a web-based application, while the computational core consists of
scripts for the R environment. The R environment is widely used in the research
community, so the core uses up-to-date packages according to the state-of-the-art
and newly developed methods are also returned to the community in the form of
R packages. The advantage of the web-based interface is that it is ready to use
and does not require software installation on the user's computer, making the
application available without much effort. A demonstration application is
available at http://growth.sci.muni.cz.
The product is provided free of charge under the terms of the BUT license.