A novel method for estimating distributions of body mass index

Table 3 Biases and mean squared errors (in parentheses) in estimated parameters, and Kolmogrov-Smirnov test results

		Normal	Log normal	Gamma
Bias (MSE)	\( \overline{X} \)	−0.006	−0.010	−0.036
	\( \overline{X} \)	(0.058)	(0.062)	(0.068)
	SD	−0.121	−0.070	−0.026
	SD	(0.035)	(0.035)	(0.146)
	\( {\widehat{p}}_{\ge 25} \)	0.001	0.001	0.016
	\( {\widehat{p}}_{\ge 25} \)	(0.001)	(0)	(0.001)
	\( {\widehat{p}}_{\ge 30} \)	0	−0.002	0.003
	\( {\widehat{p}}_{\ge 30} \)	(0)	(0)	(0)
Kolmogrov-Smirnov test false rejection rate		2.5 %	2.3 %	24.9 %

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