ARE THE CUBIC ROOTS OF BODY WEIGHTS DISTRIBUTED NORMALLY? Processing of Health Data and Fitting of them Type of Distribution by Means of a Micro-Computer
A micro-computer was utilized for storing and processing the health data of Saitama University students. All the data of about 1200 freshmen were stored into a sheet of semi-floppy disk(occupying approximately 46 clusters). Data processing was made also by the micro-computer. Among the results, the...
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| Published in | Kodo Keiryogaku (The Japanese Journal of Behaviormetrics) Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 1 - 11 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | Japanese |
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The Behaviormetric Society
31.03.1984
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| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISSN | 0385-5481 1880-4705 |
| DOI | 10.2333/jbhmk.11.2_1 |
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| Summary: | A micro-computer was utilized for storing and processing the health data of Saitama University students. All the data of about 1200 freshmen were stored into a sheet of semi-floppy disk(occupying approximately 46 clusters). Data processing was made also by the micro-computer. Among the results, the distribution of the body weight was of a particular consideration. In place of the cubic root transformation, which had been believed to be the best, the logarithmic transfomation resulted in a better approximation to the normal distribution according to skewness, kurtosis, AIC(deviance)and D'Agostino's D statistic. |
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| ISSN: | 0385-5481 1880-4705 |
| DOI: | 10.2333/jbhmk.11.2_1 |