{"id":8587,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-structural_growth_model\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:19","slug":"non-structural_growth_model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-structural_growth_model\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-structural growth model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A non-parametric model for mathematically fitting longitudinal growth data for individuals. &nbsp;Non-structural models (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsisfun.com\/definitions\/polynomial.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.mathsisfun.com\/definitions\/polynomial.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polynomial<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/people.revoledu.com\/kardi\/tutorial\/Regression\/KernelRegression\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/people.revoledu.com\/kardi\/tutorial\/Regression\/KernelRegression\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kernel regression<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/economics.about.com\/library\/glossary\/bldef-cubic-splines.htm\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/economics.about.com\/library\/glossary\/bldef-cubic-splines.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cubic splines<\/a>) do not assume an <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">apriori<\/span> functional form of the growth curve. &nbsp;The model has been applied to measures of growth and physical performance such as the adolescent growth spurt. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adolescent_growth_spurt\">Adolescent growth spurt<\/a>, Structural growth model<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-parametric model for mathematically fitting longitudinal growth data for individuals. &nbsp;Non-structural models (e.g., polynomial, kernel regression, cubic splines) do not assume an apriori functional form of the growth curve. &nbsp;The model has been applied to measures of growth and physical performance such as the adolescent growth spurt. &nbsp; See Adolescent growth spurt, Structural growth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-structural_growth_model\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Non-structural growth model&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}