Following on from some of my earlier posts, this is purely about, hopefully, saving some other people some time in putting this together. Height z-scores are required to then calculate the blood pressure z-scores. The CDC (Center for Disease Control … Continue reading → [Read more...]

In analysis of Child Health data, generally z-scores or percentile groupings are used as children do not growth is not linear. The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) have released tables of data for calculating these z-scores and percentiles, and here are some scripts for R to calculate these ... [Read more...]