TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Human growth data analyses and statistics
BT  - The 4th Gülpe International Student Summer School
JF  - Human biology and public health
N2  - Students learn by repetition. Repetition is essential, but repetition needs questioning, and questioning the repertoire belongs to the essential tasks of student education. Guiding students to questioning was and is our prime motive to offer our International Student Summer Schools. The data were critically discussed among the students, in the twilight of Just So Stories, common knowledge, and prompted questioning of contemporary solutions. For these schools, the students bring their own data, carry their preliminary concepts, and in group discussions, they may have to challenge these concepts. Catch-up growth is known to affect long bone growth, but different opinions exist to what extent it also affects body proportions. Skeletal age and dental development are considered appropriate measures of maturation, but it appears that both system develop independently and are regulated by different mechanisms. Body weight distributions are assumed to be skewed, yet, historic data disproved this assumption. Many discussions focused on current ideas of global growth standards as a common yardstick for all populations world-wide, with new statistical tools being developed including network reconstruction and evaluation of the reconstructs to determine the confidence of graph prediction methods.
KW  - Just so stories
KW  - Summer Schools
KW  - questioning solutions
KW  - repetition
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph2021.3.29
SN  - 2748-9957
VL  - 2021
IS  - 3, Summer School Supplement
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -