Predicting body fat using weight - Height indices

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1131-1138

  Mills, Terence C ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BMI; Body fat; Height weight indices; Obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 50349095871     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760802264707     Document Type: Article

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