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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of the distributions considered for simulation

From: A novel method for estimating distributions of body mass index

 

Normal

Log normala

Gammaa

Parameters

μ = 24 (mean)

σ = 4 (standard deviation)

Log(μ) = 0 (log mean)

Log(σ) = 0.1 (log standard deviation)

κ = 1 (shape)

θ = 2 (scale)

Mean

24

Standard deviation

4

Skewness

0.007

0.31

1.95

Kurtosis

2.95

3.12

8.47

  1. aData generated from log normal and the gamma distributions were scaled to have mean of 24 and standard deviation of four