Table 5.
LMS parameters for abdominal skinfold thickness by sex and age and equivalent degrees of freedom
| Age | Girls | Boys | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L (edf 3) | M (edf 5) | S (edf 4) | L (edf 4) | M (edf 5) | S (edf 4) | |
| 6.5 | −0.3106 | 6.629 | 0.5389 | −0.4553 | 5.902 | 0.5367 |
| 7.0 | −0.2791 | 7.191 | 0.5422 | −0.4239 | 6.241 | 0.5525 |
| 7.5 | −0.2475 | 7.750 | 0.5454 | −0.3930 | 6.591 | 0.5685 |
| 8.0 | −0.2159 | 8.301 | 0.5481 | −0.3629 | 6.964 | 0.5842 |
| 8.5 | −0.1845 | 8.841 | 0.5502 | −0.3345 | 7.359 | 0.5991 |
| 9.0 | −0.1537 | 9.371 | 0.5510 | −0.3092 | 7.773 | 0.6122 |
| 9.5 | −0.1243 | 9.886 | 0.5499 | −0.2876 | 8.190 | 0.6227 |
| 10.0 | −0.0970 | 10.382 | 0.5463 | −0.2703 | 8.588 | 0.6298 |
| 10.5 | −0.0722 | 10.868 | 0.5401 | −0.2588 | 8.947 | 0.6331 |
| 11.0 | −0.0503 | 11.352 | 0.5312 | −0.2548 | 9.250 | 0.6326 |
| 11.5 | −0.0313 | 11.838 | 0.5199 | −0.2592 | 9.478 | 0.6282 |
| 12.0 | −0.0155 | 12.328 | 0.5066 | −0.2713 | 9.615 | 0.6201 |
| 12.5 | −0.0029 | 12.826 | 0.4919 | −0.2897 | 9.668 | 0.6088 |
| 13.0 | 0.0063 | 13.328 | 0.4766 | −0.3125 | 9.658 | 0.5952 |
| 13.5 | 0.0123 | 13.825 | 0.4614 | −0.3379 | 9.613 | 0.5799 |
| 14.0 | 0.0153 | 14.301 | 0.4466 | −0.3639 | 9.563 | 0.5639 |
| 14.5 | 0.0157 | 14.731 | 0.4327 | −0.3884 | 9.537 | 0.5480 |
| 15.0 | 0.0138 | 15.089 | 0.4203 | −0.4100 | 9.549 | 0.5330 |
| 15.5 | 0.0102 | 15.369 | 0.4097 | −0.4271 | 9.607 | 0.5197 |
| 16.0 | 0.0050 | 15.579 | 0.4011 | −0.4385 | 9.717 | 0.5086 |
| 16.5 | −0.0016 | 15.732 | 0.3947 | −0.4439 | 9.875 | 0.4996 |
| 17.0 | −0.0092 | 15.834 | 0.3900 | −0.4444 | 10.066 | 0.4926 |
| 17.5 | −0.0174 | 15.896 | 0.3866 | −0.4412 | 10.271 | 0.4871 |
| 18.0 | −0.0260 | 15.939 | 0.3840 | −0.4358 | 10.483 | 0.4825 |
| 18.5 | −0.0349 | 15.979 | 0.3816 | −0.4295 | 10.698 | 0.4781 |
L Box–Cox transformation power, M median, S generalized CV, edf equivalent degrees of freedom