Kinesiology, Vol. 5. No. 1.-2., 1975.
Original scientific paper
The structure of anthropometric dimensions
Milutin Stojanović
; Fakultet zi fizičko vaspitanje Beograd
Konstantin Momirović
; Institut za kineziologiju Fakulteta za fizičku kulturu Zagreb
Rajko Vukosavljević
; Centar za klasifikaciju i selekciju ljudstva za potrebe JNA
Silvija Solarić
; Institut za kineziologiju Fakulteta za fizičku kulturu u Zagrebu
Abstract
On the sample of 737 males, 19-27 years old, anthropometric variables were measured. IN order to maximize the degree of measurement reliability, every measure was taken three times by 5 experimenters for every subject, and subcutaneous skinfolds adn breast girth were measured six times.
On the basis of these results factor structure of anthropometric dimensions was analysed, and existency of transversal skeleton dimensionality was not proved. That the position of this factor is insufficiently determined is shown by the following facts: circular dimensions are correlated to a higher degree with this factor than transversal dimensions which determine the factor; it correlation with the factor of volume and body mass is high, and its correlation with the factor of longitudinal skeleton dimensionality is relatively low. Insufficient reliability of this latent dimension position can be also caused by the method used for determining coordinate axes in the space re-scaled on the antiimage metrics. Consequently, further investigations of the factor structure of anthropometric dimensions using other factorising methods are necessary.
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240646
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Publication date:
1.1.1975.
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