Power-like Tail Observed in Weight Distributions of Schoolchildren
Physics and Society
2015-09-16 v1
Abstract
We investigated the statistical properties of the weight distributions of Japanese children who were born in 1996, from recent data. The weights of 16- and 17-year-old male children have a lognormal distribution with a power-like tail, which is best modeled by the double Pareto distribution. The emergence of the power-like tail may be attributed to the low probability that an obese person will attain a normal weight.
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@article{arxiv.1509.04560,
title = {Power-like Tail Observed in Weight Distributions of Schoolchildren},
author = {Hiroto Kuninaka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04560},
year = {2015}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn