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license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'pediatric.zcalc: Z-Score Calculator for Biomarkers: Childhood to Young Adulthood'
version: 0.1.1
abstract: Provides tools to compute individual percentile ranks and z-scores for clinical
  biomarkers in children, adolescents and young adults, based on age-, sex-, and height-specific
  reference data from the IDEFICS (Identification and prevention of Dietary and lifestyle-induced
  health EFfects In Children and infantS) study and the Biomarkers4Pediatrics collaboration.
  Supports the computation of a composite Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) score and associated
  monitoring/action levels for health monitoring. For more details see Ahrens et al.
  (2014) <https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2014.130>.
authors:
- family-names: Mändle
  given-names: Andreas
  email: maendle@leibniz-bips.de
- family-names: Intemann
  given-names: Timm
- family-names: Bekerecioglu
  given-names: Zülal
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/bips-hb/pediatric.zcalc
commit: 78b8746ff99cd61c4e3b4b88aaa6750fcef58498
url: https://github.com/bips-hb/pediatric.zcalc
date-released: '2026-09-30'
contact:
- family-names: Mändle
  given-names: Andreas
  email: maendle@leibniz-bips.de