Some Standard Physical Characteristics of Students in Seoul: Modeling Approach
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Physically handicapped students (PHSs) are a part and parcel of a nation and indeed it is an important factor for socio-economic development. The purpose of this study is to fit some models to some standard physical characteristics (SPCs) of PHSs for male and female who are in primary and secondary schools in Seoul. For this, the data is taken from Seoul Education Statistical Annual. Quasi Newton Method is employed to fit these models using the Statistical software STATISTICA. Moreover, t-test, F-test and cross validity prediction power (CVPP) are used to check the accuracy as well as validation of the model. In this study, it is seen that these SPCs are showing upward pattern in accordance with age. Furthermore, it is found that SPCs of PHSs like height, weight, chest girth and sitting height of male and female students follow third degree polynomial model. These models are well fitted in accordance with t-test, F-test and CVPP. The stabilities of these models are more than 99%. Seoul, the capital of Korea, has been a central city of the nation more than 600 years, since being selected as the capital by the Chosun Dynasty in 1394. Physically handicapped students (PHSs) are an important issue for nation's socio-economic development. PHSs stand for locomotor disabled students. Disability is any restriction or lack of an ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being (WHO, 2002). Physical characteristics are personality or features about a person. In the present study, some standard physical characteristics (SPCs) of PHSs in Seoul represents four measurements like height, weight, chest girth and sitting height. And these measurements are assumed as latent indicators of early nutrition and lifetime health status. The sitting height is more important in the design and layout of transport, living and classroom of PHSs. Anthropometry is the study of measurement of the human body in terms of the dimensions of bone, muscle and adipose tissue. Factors which influence human growth and development are heredity, sex, socioeconomic factors, nutrition, hormones and different kinds of pollution etc. Oppositely, anthropometric measurement is one of the way to know the nutritional and health status of human body in any region or
Authors: Md. Rafiqul Islam, Md. Sabbir Hossain
Language: English
Topic: Human Health and Disease
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1122554792