ROLAND HAUSPIE is Professor of Human Biology in the Laboratory of Anthropogenetics at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
NOEL CAMERON is Professor of Human Biology in the Department of Human Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.
LUCIANO MOLINARI is Senior Researcher in the Department of Paediatrics at the University Children's Hospital in Zürich, Switzerland.
Preface G. Gilli; Part I. Growth Data and Growth Studies: Characteristics
and Methodological Issues: 1. Why study child growth and maturation J. H.
Himes; 2. The human growth curve: distance, velocity and acceleration L.
Molinari and T. Gasser; 3. Sampling for growth studies and using growth
data to assess, monitor and survey disease in epidemiological settings E.
A. Frongillo; 4. Measuring growth N. Cameron; 5. Measuring maturity N.
Cameron; 6. Measuring body composition B. Zemel and E. Barden; Part II.
Non-Parametric and Parametric Approaches for Individual Growth: 7. Kernel
estimation, shape-invariant modeling and structural analysis T. Gasser, D.
Gervini and L. Molinari; 8. Parametric models for postnatal growth R. C.
Hauspie and L. Molinari; 9. Parameter estimation in the context of
non-linear longitudinal growth models R. D. Bock and H. C. du Toit; Part
III. Methods for Population Growth: 10. Uni- and bi-variate growth
references E. A. Frongillo; 11. Latent variables and structural equation
models G. Verleye, M.-J. Ireton, J. C. Carrillo and R. C. Hauspie; 12.
Multilevel modelling A. Baxter-Jones and B. Mirwald; Part IV. Special
Topics: 13. Methods for the study of the genetics of growth and development
S. A. Czerwinski and B. Towne; 14. Prediction N. Cameron; 15. Ordinal
longitudinal data analysis J. K. Vermunt and J. A. Hagenaars.
