Growth curve (statistics)

Table of height and weight for boys over time. The growth curve model (also known as GMANOVA) is used to analyze data such as this, where multiple observations are made on collections of individuals over time.

The growth curve model in statistics is a specific multivariate linear model, also known as GMANOVA (Generalized Multivariate Analysis-Of-Variance).[1] It generalizes MANOVA by allowing post-matrices, as seen in the definition.

  1. ^ Kim, Kevin; Timm, Neil (2007). ""Restricted MGLM and growth curve model" (Chapter 7)". Univariate and multivariate general linear models: Theory and applications with SAS (with 1 CD-ROM for Windows and UNIX). Statistics: Textbooks and Monographs (Second ed.). Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC. ISBN 978-1-58488-634-1.