PEDIATRICS Vol. 56 No. 6 December 1975, pp. 1026-1033
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The RWT Method for the Prediction of Adult Stature

Alex F. Roche M.D., D.Sc.1, Howard Wainer Ph.D.1, and David Thissen Ph.D.1

1 Fels Research Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

The Roche-Wainer-Thissen (RWT) method estimates the adult stature of an individual from data recorded at a single childhood examination. The data required are recumbent length, nude weight, midparent stature, and hand-wrist skeletal age. If necessary, a measurement ent of the child's stature can be transformed to be approximately equivalent to recumbent length with little loss of accuracy. When applied to data from three longitudinal growth studies, the prediction errors with the RWT method were smaller than those with the method of Bayley and Pinneau.

Submitted on October 24, 1974
Accepted on January 6, 1975




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