Re: st: CDC growth charts in Stata

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Thanks! I searched the archives but didn't know what
I was looking for... This implements the CDC z-scores,
so I'm set.

cheers,
Jeph


Ana Gabriela Guerrero Serdan wrote:
> If you want to calculate z-scores you can use zanthro
> in Stata. 
> zanthro uses 2000 US population or UK population. 
> There was a previous question on this sometime last
> year. 
> http://stata.com.mx/statalist/archive/2007-11/msg00173.html
>
> you can also use the WHO stata macros  if you want to
> use the 2005 WHO reference population. 
> see http://www.who.int/childgrowth/software/en/
>
>  
> --- Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net> wrote:
>
>
> > The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) distributes
> > a SAS program which generates growth charts and
> > associated
> > z-scores for children:
> >
> >  
> http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/growthcharts/resources/sas.htm
> > Has anyone ported/implemented this to/in Stata?
> > Mostly it's
> > table lookups, but there a lot of conditionals for
> > special
> > cases that I would prefer not to translate (nor do I
> > want to
> > move my data to SAS for a single calculation, then
> > back again).
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jeph
> >
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