Multiplicative Modeling of Children's Growth and Its Statistical Properties
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2014-02-18 v4 Medical Physics
Abstract
We develop a numerical growth model which can predict the statistical properties of the height distribution of Japanese children. Our previous studies have clarified that the height distribution of schoolchildren shows a transition from the lognormal to the normal distribution during puberty period. In this paper, we demonstrate by our simulations that the transition occurs owing to the variability of the onset of the puberty period.
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@article{arxiv.1306.3732,
title = {Multiplicative Modeling of Children's Growth and Its Statistical Properties},
author = {Hiroto Kuninaka and Mitsugu Matsushita},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3732},
year = {2014}
}
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11 pages, 8 figures