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On the modelling of human growth
Author(s) -
Karlberg Johan
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.4780060210
Subject(s) - feature (linguistics) , linear growth , computer science , growth model , key (lock) , econometrics , maturity (psychological) , mathematics , psychology , developmental psychology , mathematical economics , philosophy , linguistics , computer security
A new approach to modelling human linear growth from birth to maturity is presented. The model splits growth into three additive and partly superimposed components, appropriately named infancy, childhood and puberty; we refer to it as the ICP‐model for obvious reasons. A key feature of this model, compared with others, is that the components correspond with known features of the endocrinological regulation of growth and can be considered in isolation from one another.