Variability in stature growth
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Human Biology
- Vol. 16 (1), 45-51
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03014468900000152
Abstract
An analysis of longitudinal data shows that there are marked changes in the variability of stature and stature velocity during growth in stature, as measured by the coefficient of variation. Variability in stature velocity tends to rise after birth but from age 2 years to gradually declines until the end of adolescence, one variation in the timing of adolescence is taken into account. Comparison of velocity variation in an affluent western society (UK) with velocity variation in two poorer societies (India and Thailand) shows the former to be systematically smaller.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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