[The individual typological characteristics of the habitus of young children and the principles of somatotyping].
The nature of individual differences in early childhood was investigated by the principal component analysis of 22 absolute anthropological measures. The first principal component accounted for 45% of variability; it may be referred to as a general body-size factor, the same as in the studies of senior children and adults. The second principal component accounted for 14% of differences in habitus of children. Sex differences were inconsiderable. The concordance of the topology based on the values of two first principal components and on the V. G. Shtefko and A. D. Ostrovskiĭ classifying system was lower than 50%.
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D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013008:Somatotypes; D013223:Statistics as Topic
Individual'no-tipologicheskie osobennosti teloslozheniia deteĭ rannego vozrasta i printsipy somatotipirovaniia.