%0 Journal Article
%T PROPUESTA METODOL車GICA PARA LA COMPARACI車N DE MEDICIONES ANTROPOM谷TRICAS ENTRE UNA POBLACI車N BASE Y UNA POBLACI車N OBJETO: UNA APLICACI車N ENTRE POBLACI車N COLOMBIANA Y ESTADOUNIDENSE
%A Cubillos-V芍squez
%A Sandra M
%A J芍uregui-Nieto
%A Germ芍n
%A Aristiz芍bal-Rodr赤guez
%A Jeimy P
%A G車mez-Mart赤nez
%A Claudia Y
%A Rodr赤guez-Romero
%A Edna T
%A Pacheco-Dur芍n
%A Pedro N
%J Revista Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%D 2011
%I Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%X background. using international growth patterns has been described as being inappropriate for describing a latin-american population's characteristics and there is limited support for guaranteeing their applicability. objective. proposing a statistical methodology for comparing and predicting a target population's anthropometric values from a base population's values. materials and methods. the kolmogorov-smirnov test was used for establishing whether there were significant differences in a local target population's anthropometric measurements and those for a base population and identifying data fit by using a simple linear regression model. results. there were significant differences between colombian and us population growth patterns; the anthropometric percentiles studied for the colombian population were lower than us ones. a greater than 90% coefficient of determination was obtained once the linear ratio had been determined; this led to stating that a linear regression model for all ages from both genders with measurements for the colombian population could be estimated from us population information. conclusions. the statistical methodology proposed here fit a target population's nutritional classification when compared to foreign reference patterns where stateorganism accepted reference tables were not available. the results of the present study showed a tendency towards underestimating the colombian population's nutritional state because it had been compared to populations such as the us population which has different growth trends; such situation may be presented in other populations.
%K measurements
%K methods and theories
%K statistics
%K honparametric
%K linear models
%K body height.
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