diff --git a/paper/paper.md b/paper/paper.md index 5a31a85..70de1a6 100644 --- a/paper/paper.md +++ b/paper/paper.md @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ of Preterm Infants Standards [@Villar2015PostnatalProject]; and the WHO Child Gr [@WHOMulticentreGrowthReferenceStudyGroup2006WHOAge; @WHO2006WHODevelopment; @WHO2007WHODevelopment]. Also included are functions to classify growth for indicators including size-for-gestational age, small vulnerable newborns -[@Ashorn2023SmallImpact, @Lawn2023SmallCounting], stunting, wasting, +[@Ashorn2023SmallImpact; @Lawn2023SmallCounting], stunting, wasting, weight-for-age (underweight), and micro/macrocephaly. # Statement of need @@ -72,27 +72,31 @@ standards implemented within: @Villar2017BodyProject] - INTERGROWTH-21^st^ Postnatal Growth of Preterm Infants Standards [@Villar2015PostnatalProject] -- WHO Child Growth Standards[@WHOMulticentreGrowthReferenceStudyGroup2006WHOAge; - @WHO2006WHODevelopment; @WHO2007WHODevelopment] +- WHO Child Growth Standards + [@WHOMulticentreGrowthReferenceStudyGroup2006WHOAge; @WHO2006WHODevelopment; + @WHO2007WHODevelopment] This is more growth standards than made available in other R packages designed to perform the same sorts of analyses. The following table displays functionality of other R packages designed to implement the above growth -standards: +standards. A tick (✓) indicates that all possible standards are +included in a package, a cross (✘) indicates that these standards are +completely missing, and a warning sign (⚠) indicates that some of these +standards are implemented but not others.: | Software | Platform | WHO (0-5 years) | IG-21^st^ NBS | IG-21^st^ PNG | IG-21^st^ Fetal | Functionality | |----|----|----|----|----|----|----| -| [gigs](https://www.github.com/ropensci/gigs/) | R | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | -| [anthro](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/anthro/index.html) | R | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Values → z-scores | -| [AGD](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AGD/index.html) | R | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Values ↔ z-scores | -| [childsds](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/childsds/index.html) | R | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Values → z-scores/centiles | -| [ki-tools/growthstandards](https://www.github.com/ki-tools/growthstandards/) | R | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ | ⚠️ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | -| [nutriverse/intergrowth](https://github.com/nutriverse/intergrowth/) | R | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ⚠️ | Values → z-scores/centiles | -| [sitar](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sitar/index.html) | R | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | -| [zscorer](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zscorer/index.html) | R | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Values → z-scores/centiles | -| [gigs](https://www.github.com/ropensci/gigs-stata/) (Stata) | Stata | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | -| [zanthro](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/1536867X1301300211) (Stata) | Stata | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Values → z-scores/centiles | -| [gigs](https://github.com/SASPAC/gigs/) (SAS) | SAS | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | +| [gigs](https://www.github.com/ropensci/gigs/) | R | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | +| [anthro](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/anthro/index.html) | R | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Values → z-scores | +| [AGD](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AGD/index.html) | R | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Values ↔ z-scores | +| [childsds](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/childsds/index.html) | R | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Values → z-scores/centiles | +| [ki-tools/growthstandards](https://www.github.com/ki-tools/growthstandards/) | R | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠| ⚠| Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | +| [nutriverse/intergrowth](https://github.com/nutriverse/intergrowth/) | R | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ⚠| Values → z-scores/centiles | +| [sitar](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sitar/index.html) | R | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | +| [zscorer](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zscorer/index.html) | R | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Values → z-scores/centiles | +| [gigs](https://www.github.com/ropensci/gigs-stata/) (Stata) | Stata | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | +| [zanthro](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/1536867X1301300211) (Stata) | Stata | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Values → z-scores/centiles | +| [gigs](https://github.com/SASPAC/gigs/) (SAS) | SAS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Values ↔ z-scores/centiles | The R [package website](https://docs.ropensci.org/gigs/) also includes benchmarks of these packages relative to each other. For speed, ``gigs`` (for R)