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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Body Compos Res. 2007;5(2):73–79.

Table 2.

Functional forms for data categorised by sex and race.

Race Male Female
African American λ̂= 0.72 (0.22), ø̂ = 0.44 (1.08)
y = −34.5 + 1.96BMI 		λ̂= 0.80 (0.10), ø̂ = 0.14 (0.22)
Asian λ̂= 0.89 (0.71), ø̂ = 0.71 (2.08)
y= −20.3 + 1.45BMI 		λ̂= 0.18 (0.28), ø̂ = −0.17 (0.92)
y= −22.6 + 1.77BMI
Caucasian λ̂= 0.73 (0.15), ø̂ = −0.14 (0.75)
y = −42.4 + 2.31BMI 		λ̂= 0.85 (0.06), ø̂ = 0.29 (0.16)
Hispanic λ̂= 1.06 (0.16), ø̂ = 1.31 (0.53)
y = −30.7 + 1.83BMI		 λ̂= 0.56 (0.12), ø̂ = −0.75 (0.39)