However, little attention has been devoted to studying multivariate measurements. In particular, we have yet to develop tools to study relationships between measurements. Consider the following examples Example 1.1. Suppose you want to study the relationship between the height of a boy and his father. Here, we take two measurements per child, the child’s height and his/her father’s height, and ...

Previous research on the relationship between height and reproductive success in women has produced mixed results. One possible explanation for these is mediation by ecological factors, such as environmental stress. Here we investigate female height and reproductive success under conditions of environmental stress (poverty) using a large scale dataset from Guatemala (n = 2,571). Controlling for...

OBJECTIVES We test (McIntyre and Kacerosky's [2011]: Am J Hum Biol 23:305-312) prediction that the relationship between age at menarche and height switches from negative to positive, in a unidirectional and smooth manner, as the society industrializes. According to this prediction, a mid-level industrial country should exhibit a weak relationship between the two variables. METHODS The 8,013 o...

This paper explores the relationship between height and its determinants, paying explicit attention to the dynamic nature of the velocity of the growth profile. The relationship between height and some measures of income and nutrition is characterized by a changing lag pattern in 19th century the Netherlands.

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that knee height is a determinant of knee joint load. Nonetheless, no study has directly examined the relationship between anthropometric measures of height and knee joint structures, such as cartilage. METHODS 89 asymptomatic community-based adults aged 25-62 with no diagnosed history of knee arthropathy were recruited. Anthropometric data (knee height and bo...

This study was performed to estimate stand-level volume using the characteristics of vertical and horizontal distribution of airborne Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data. It is found that the height distributional parameters, such as percentile, of LiDAR data reflected onand in-canopy in a stand have the relationship with stand volume in previous research. However, we assumed that the nonp...

BACKGROUND Violent criminality is at least moderately heritable, but the mechanisms behind this remain largely unexplained. Height, a highly heritable trait, may be involved but no study has estimated the effect of height on crime while simultaneously accounting for important demographic, biological and other heritable confounders. METHODS We linked nationwide, longitudinal registers for 760 ...

With the purpose to establish a relationship between physical characteristics of the players and biomechanical variables of service in lawn tennis present study was structured. For the purpose of the study twelve intervarsity level players were recruited as the subjects. A camcorder was used to video record the movement of the subjects. 2D Data were collected from movement onset to the follow-t...