Prediction of body mass in elite Caucasian athletes from anthropometric measurements
Introduction Predicting body mass from skeletal frame size is important in disciplines including forensics, physical anthropology and archaeology, where partial skeletal remains can be used to reconstruct a complete person. Dimensions of athletes are of particular relevance as their physiques more closely approximate the probable conditioning of earlier humans (Ruff, 2000). Such estimates produce reasonable predictions of mass with few predictor variables (e.g., stature and bicrystal breadth), but inevitably fail to address the variation in skeletal proportion between individuals which would make estimates more accurate in less typical individuals. In living humans, unlimited skeletal measurements are possible, and the purpose of this study was to produce a prediction of total body mass based on multiple skeletal dimensions of a large sample of athletes and controls.
Stewart Arthur Olds Tim Marfell-Jones Michael
The Robert Gordon University, UK University of South Australia, Australia
国际会议
广州
英文
563-564
2008-08-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）