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Heights and Weights
Tables of the relation between height and weight are now common in many countries, and if reasonably used are certainly helpful. It is not that a youth, a man, or woman, of a certain height must closely conform to the weight tabulated, a margin of 15 or 20 per cent, on either side is allowable. Such a table is undoubtedly useful in comparing the recruits or the prisoners it may be of one year (...
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to be observed, if time is not to be needlessly wasted. One is that a writer should make himself acquainted with what has been previously said for and against the subject in discussion, to save his opponent the necessity of repeating himself, and another is that when he quotes his opponent, he ought to do so accurately and not draw inferences which, with careful perusal, it would be seen the wo...
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Attention is given solely to cross-sectional or distance studies, that is to 'say, to the measurements at various ages of large numbers of children of different generations or of different geographicalindustrial groups.* Concern is with children aged 5, 9, 13, and, in certain instances, 16 years, these being the ages at which children attending education authority schools undergo systematic med...
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Although height and weight are the most commonly measured parameters in clinical and preventive medicine, there have been surprisingly few studies of their distribution in adult populations. Khosla and Lowe (1968) have published an analysis of height and weight measurements made during the course of their surveys of industrial populations, comparing the results with those of earlier studies in ...
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I)R. .Buchanan having published notes in the April number of the Gazette on the comparative heights and weights of the prisoners in Bengal jails, I beg to offer the following observations thereon :? Dr. Buchanan says: "If a man of certain height has the weight corresponding in the table lie may fairly be considered in ' good health.' From this it is an easy matter to decide if a man is in good,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries
سال: 1923
ISSN: 0020-2681,2058-1009
DOI: 10.1017/s0020268100030250