There are several tasks after the meeting with Roger and David:
1. Building different matrix for each individual trajectory and average trajectory (individual - average)
2. Alyways use “distance” between individual and average to define “parallel, crossing”
3. Calculate the “standard deviation” for each part (left part of crossing and right part)
4. Try to define “crossing” –> distance=0 and STD is a large number
“parallel” –> distance=fixed number and STD is 0
(1). Reading webpages from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_birth
shows some risk factors for PTB:
1. Previous history of preterm birth
2. Multiple pregnancies
3. Certain chronic disease such as high blood pressure, kidney disease and diabetes.
4. Substance abuse of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs
5. Women under 18 or over 35 are at a higher risk for premature birth
We should make full use of our data to validate to see whether we can find some useful patterns from these risk factors.
(2). Reading webpages from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_weight
Categories of growth retardation: Symmetrical growth retardation and Asymmetrical growth retardation
We should also try to see whether our data has these patterns or not. “BPD” is the parameter, we should focus on.
