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A factorial analysis was made of a small battery of twelve anthropometric measurements. The correlations can be accounted for by four factors in a simple structure. This small battery has been used by the author for teaching purposes. Several of these factors seem to be meaningful, but their acceptance must depend on more comprehensive studies of body measurements with a larger number of measurements.
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Thurstone, L.L. Factor analysis and body types. Psychometrika 11, 15–21 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02288895
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