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KMID : 0377519790040010037
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Chung-Ang Journal of Medicine
1979 Volume.4 No. 1 p.37 ~ p.42
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Distribution Types of Weight/(Height)^p-type Physical Indices
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Han Tae-Hyon
Chung Kyou-Chull
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Abstract
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In order to verify the distribution types of weight/(height)^ptype physical indices, viz, relative weight (wt/ht), Kaup index (wt/ht^2), Ro¨hler index (wt/ht^3) and Florey index (ht/^3√wt), statistical analyses were made with the data of weight and height measurements obtained from adult males aged from 16 to 59 years. The results of the analyses disclosed that the distribution types of weight/(height)^ptype physical indices were not identical with the theoretical normal distribution as the distributions were leptokurtic (β_2＞3), and nonsymmetrical: somewhat leftshifted in the distributions of relative weight, Kaup index and Ro¨hler index (β_1＞0), and rightshifted in Florey index (β_1＜0). It is concluded that the distribution types of weight/height^ptype physical indices are approximately normal and the theory of normal distribution can be applicable to the analyses of these data.
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