The Percentage of Mature Height as a Morphometric Index of Somatic Growth: A Formal Scrutiny of Conventional Simple Ratio Scaling Assumptions.

Lorenzo Lolli Amanda Johnson Mauricio Monaco Valter Di Salvo Greg Atkinson Warren Gregson

Published in: Pediatric exercise science (2022)

For the first time, we have demonstrated that the percentage of mature height is an inconsistent statistic for determining the extent of completed growth, leading to potentially biased inferences for research and applied purposes.

Keyphrases

body mass index
physical activity