title: The Preece-Baines growth function demonstrated by personal computer: a teaching and research aid.
abstract: A group of programs was designed for execution on a personal computer to demonstrate the features of the Preece-Baines model applied to growth in height. Mean constant distance and velocity curves of four populations can be compared graphically or new curves fitted to data entered by keyboard or retrieved from diskette files. Biological parameters describing growth events are derived from the function coefficients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000354:Africa, Western; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003201:Computers; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008838:Microcomputers; D008954:Models, Biological; D012984:Software; D013664:Teaching Materials; D044465:White People; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples