Table 2.
Repartition of the misclassification of the observed silhouette, according to the “Expected” silhouette, for the women of the E3N cohort (n=91,815).
| “Expected” body silhouette | N | Lower
|
Realistic
|
Higher
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| 1 | 632 | 24 | 3.8 | 608 | 96.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 1.5b | 1,259 | 98 | 7.8 | 1,161 | 96.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 6,991 | 67 | 1.0 | 6,867 | 98.2 | 57 | 0.8 |
| 2.5 | 8,405 | 182 | 2.2 | 7,899 | 94.0 | 324 | 3.8 |
| 3 | 34,509 | 532 | 1.5 | 33,677 | 97.6 | 300 | 0.9 |
| 3.5 | 9,733 | 432 | 4.4 | 9,014 | 92.6 | 287 | 3.0 |
| 4 | 15,024 | 210 | 1.4 | 14,545 | 96.8 | 269 | 1.8 |
| 4.5 | 1,049 | 17 | 1.6 | 890 | 84.8 | 142 | 13.6 |
| 5 | 5,925 | 18 | 0.3 | 5,255 | 88.7 | 652 | 11.0 |
| 5.5 | 3,233 | 27 | 0.8 | 2,033 | 62.9 | 1,173 | 36.3 |
| 6 | 4,419 | 11 | 0.3 | 3,518 | 79.6 | 890 | 20.1 |
| <6 | 636 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 636 | 100 |
| Total | 91,815 | 1,618 | 1.8 | 85,467 | 93.1 | 4,730 | 5.1 |
a
Expected body silhouette was found fitting the distribution of the silhouette estimated by technicians, on the validation sample, to the whole cohort sorted by increasing BMI.
b
intermediate silhouettes in case of two adjacent choices.