TY  - JOUR
T1  - Anthropometric dimensions among Indian males — A principal component analysis
AU  - Majumder, Joydeep
PY  - 2014
DA  - December
JF  - Eurasian Journal of Anthropology
JO  - Euras J Anthropol
PB  - ÖREN-ADRAMYTTEİON ANTİK KENTİ KÜLTÜR TURİZM VE DOĞA DERNEĞİ
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2166-7411
SP  - 54
EP  - 62
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - Anthropometry is a potential tool in estimating body composition indicators and assist inunderstanding human physical variations in terms of their long-range utility inunderstanding the body growth. The present study focused on factorial analysis ofanthropometric data collected on a population to explore the possibility of clustering of bodydimension data as body composition indicators. This study was carried on rural malepopulation of Orissa, India. 26 anthropometric parameters comprising of lengths, breadths,circumferences and skinfold thicknesses were measured. The variables were treated for PCA,which generated three principal components – volume indicator, body length indicator andbody fat indicator, explaining 79.5% cumulative variance of the total parameters. Splitanalysis of subsets of the sample showed same pattern of result as of for the analysis using thefull sample. Internal data reliability test (Cronbach’s Alpha) of the sample as well asindividual variables was above 0.9. Applying PCA, the study sub-grouped the anthropometricparameters under three clusters as volume indicator (breadths and circumferences on thetransverse plane), body length indicator (lengths on the coronal plane) and body fat indicator(skinfold thicknesses). The data provided in this study indicate that the parameters aregeneralizable to the population represented by this data set for male population.
KW  - Anthropometry
KW  - ergonomics
KW  - factor analysis
KW  - Indian men
KW  - body composition
CR  - Abeysekera JDA, Shahnavaz, H. (1989) Body size variability between people in developed and developing countries and its impact on the use of imported goods. Int J Ind Ergonom 4:139-149.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/eja/article/620439
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/808374
ER  -