Predicting body fat using data on the BMI

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Mills, Terence C ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Functional form; Prediction; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244438561     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2005.11910560     Document Type: Article

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