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Discussion: Conditional Growth Charts
The authors are to be congratulated for a very important contribution with many practical applications. Including covariates in the construction of growth charts will undoubtedly lead to more informative tools for practitioners in many disciplines. Growth charts are widely used in practice to monitor the evolution of particular univariate measurements over time. In some situations, a patient’s ...
متن کاملDiscussion: Conditional Growth Charts
I will use the terms “reference centiles” or “centile charts,” as the setting that I consider here is more general than that of “growth charts.” Longitudinal reference centiles over some measure of time (typically age) are almost always implemented repeatedly on the same individual. In this kind of setting the notion of conditional or adaptive centile charts is very appealing, particularly when...
متن کاملDiscussion : Conditional Growth Charts
1. Overview. Wei and He are to be congratulated on an innovative and important article. The conditional approach to growth charts described in their article is important in a practical sense, and the use of quantile regression is both natural and well motivated. We look forward to further application of their idea to actual practice, because the concept of “falling behind” in one’s growth cycle...
متن کاملDiscussion: Conditional Growth Charts
First, I would like to congratulate the authors for an interesting application of their semiparametric quantile regression model to longitudinal human growth data. On an earlier occasion, I had an opportunity to collaborate with the authors on applying this method for the purpose of constructing semilongitudinal growth charts for height and for body mass index. As my background is in medicine r...
متن کاملRejoinder: Conditional Growth Charts
First of all, we would like to thank all the discussants for their encouragement of and insightful comments on our work. We are especially appreciative of their unique perspectives brought to the topic of conditional growth charts. The discussants raised a number of interesting questions from statistical as well as clinical points of view, some of which are broader and deeper than what we will ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Statistics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0090-5364
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000000623