Methods in Human Growth Research (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 39) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521183812 ISBN 13: 9780521183819

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This volume is a review of up-to-date methods used in human growth research. Aimed at junior and senior researchers in human biology, anthropology, epidemiology and pediatrics involved in the analysis of normal and pathological growth and development data, it focuses on concepts, possibilities, limitations and applications.

About this title

Book Description

In order to gain an understanding of the dynamics of human individual and average growth patterns it is essential that the right analytical methods are selected. This volume is a review of up-to-date methods used in human growth research. Aimed at junior and senior researchers in human biology, anthropology, epidemiology and paediatrics involved in the analysis of normal and pathological growth and development data at individual as well as population level, it provides a minimum of the mathematics behind the methods, and focuses on concepts, possibilities, limitations and applications.

About the Author

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 Zurich, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521183812
• ISBN 13: 9780521183819
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Hauspie Roland C., Cameron Noël, Molinari Luciano