Re: [NMusers] Body weight distribution

Thank you all your inputs.

Sebastien

Leonid Gibiansky a écrit :
> 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
> web: www.quantpharm.com
> e-mail: LGibiansky at quantpharm.com
> tel: (301) 767 5566
>
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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 Mon Apr 28 2008 - 13:29:01 EDT