Re: [NMusers] Body weight distribution

Population sample collected by the National Center for Heath Statistics
can be used to get age-weight distributions for a general population
(separately, for adults, youth and kids). It is not straightforward to
get data in a convenient format but the data are there:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhanes/nh3data.htm

Data can be sampled from this collection, or if needed, described in a
parametric way to sample from a derived distribution.

Leonid


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Leonid Gibiansky, Ph.D.
President, QuantPharm LLC
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com
>> [mailto:owner-nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com] On Behalf Of Sébastien Bihorel
>> Sent: Thursday, 24 April 2008 3:55 a.m.
>> To: nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com
>> Subject: [NMusers] Body weight distribution
>>
>> Dear NMusers,
>>
>> I have been looking for publications describing the body
>> weight distribution in the general adult population, and more
>> specifically for those reporting a parametric analysis of
>> this distribution. I found one publication which focused on
>> the US population (Portier et al, Risk Anal
>> 2007 Feb;27(1):11-26) and wonder if anyone knows of any other
>> relevant articles on the topic.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Sebastien
>>
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Received on Thu Apr 24 2008 - 09:23:12 EDT