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Background to the Girls' Growth Curves Data
Data analysed in: Kroonenberg, P. M. (2008). Applied multiway data analysis. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.
The original study from which the present data were taken was initiated in order to get
insight into the physical growth patterns of children from ages four to fifteen. Details about
the study together with several analyses of the data for 30 normal French girls can be found in
the volume Data analysis. The ins and outs of solving real problems. (Janssen et al.,
1987).
References
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Sempe, M. et al. (1987). Multivariate and longitudinal data on growing children: Presentation of the French
auxiological survey. In J.Janssen et al. Data analysis. The Ins and Outs of solving real problems (pp.
3-6). New York: Plenum Press.
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Analyses of the same data in the same book
- Presentation of the French auxiological survey (pp. 3-6)
M. Sempé and Groupe d'Auxiologie Médico-Sociale
- Introduction to the proposed solutions (pp. 7-12)
P.M. Kroonenberg
- Solution using STATIS (pp. 13-30)
Ch. Lavit and M.-O. Pernin
- Solution using SPECTRAMAP (pp. 31-48)
P.J. Lewi, G. Calomme and J. van Hoof
- Solution using LONGI (pp. 49-66)
J. Pontier and M.-O. Pernin
- Solution using clustering method (pp.67-88) A. Mineo
- Solutions using three-mode principal component analysis and some comparison results with the other
approaches (pp. 89-112)
P.M. Kroonenberg
Data description
Rows (1st mode): Girls
30 French girls
Columns (2nd mode): Variables
No. | Abbreviation | Description |
1. | weight | Weight |
2. | length | Length |
3. | crrump | Crown-rump length |
4. | head | Head circumference |
5. | chest | Chest circumference |
6. | arm | Arm |
7. | calf | Calf |
8. | pelvis | Pelvis |
Slices (3rd mode): Age
Ages from 4 until 15 inclusive.
Data arrangement
A three-way data array X = (x(i,j,k)) has the following form
|-----|i=1
|-----| |i=2
|-----| | |..
| | | |..
| | |____|i=I=30 k=K=12
| |____| k=2
|_____| k=1
j=1,.,J=8
The actual data file has the following form:
j=1,.,J=8
|-----|i=1
| |i=2
| |.. k= 1
| |..
|_____|i=I=30
|-----|i=1
| |i=2
| |.. k= 2
| |..
|_____|i=I=30
|-----|i=1
| |i=2
| |.. k=12
| |..
|_____|i=I=30
Thus the first mode (i) is nested in the third mode (k) and
there are 30 (Girls) times 12 (Age) rows and 8 (Variables) columns.
Data handling
Preprocessing
The data are generally preprocessed as standard multiway profile data.
For details see Kroonenberg (2008). Applied multiway data analysis. Hoboken NJ: Wiley (Chapters 6 and 15).
Permissions
These data have kindly been made available for bonafide researchers by Prof. Michel Sempé,
Le Group Français d' Auxologie, Clinique du Val D'Ouest, 69130 - Ecully. Please be sure to quote the papers mentioned
above and this website when using these data in a publication.
[Download the zipped Girls' Growth Curves Data]
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Created: 8-7-2009
Last Updated: 9-7-2009