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spline_serumcreat: Smoothing splines for log serum creatinine vs. age in months, along with KDE residuals, by race and gender.

Description

#'Smoothing splines and KDE residuals pre-calculated from NHANES serum creatinine and age data by race/ethnicity and gender.

Usage

spline_serumcreat

Arguments

Format

A data.table with 6 variables:

gender

Gender: Male or Female

reth

Race/ethnicity: Mexican American, Other Hispanic, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black, Other

sc_spline

A list of smooth.spline objects, each giving a smoothed relationship between log serum creatinine and age in months

sc_kde

A list of kde objects; each is a KDE of the distribution of residuals about the smoothing spline.

References

Ring, Caroline L., et al. "Identifying populations sensitive to environmental chemicals by simulating toxicokinetic variability." Environment International 106 (2017): 105-118.