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Fig. 2 | BMC Pediatrics

Fig. 2

From: Characterizing early child growth patterns of height-for-age in an urban slum cohort of Bangladesh with functional principal component analysis

Fig. 2

The two leading functional principal components (FPCs) in boys (black) and girls (grey). The FPC1 in both boys and girls (Panel a) were negative and monotonically decreased over time, reflecting further deviation of individual growth patterns from the mean curve. The FPC2 (Panel b) changed signs approximately at 12 months for boys and 14 months for girls, indicating the changes in growth trajectory. For boys, the FPC1 and FPC2 accounted for 93 and 6% of the variation among fitted height-for-age z-score (HAZ) curves. For girls, the FPC1 and FPC2 accounted for 96 and 3% of the variation among fitted HAZ curves

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