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Standing height (stature)

human.stature

status: draft confidence: high reviewer: none (unreviewed)

Citations

ansur_ii_2012nhanes_anthro_2015_2018iso_7250_1forensic_segment_staturesorkin_1999_stature

Related variables

human.biological_sexhuman.agehuman.arm_spanhuman.foot.lengthhuman.hand.lengthhuman.sitting_heighthuman.body_mass

Record fields

id
human.stature
name
Standing height (stature)
definition
Vertical distance floor->vertex, barefoot, heels together, head in the Frankfort horizontal plane, at maximal inspiration.
domain
human
system
whole_body
region
whole_body
type
continuous
entity
UBERON:0000468
quality
PATO:0000119
relation
RO:0000053
unit
cm
iso_ref
ISO 7250-1:2017 (stature; cross-walk)
allowed_range
min
120
max
260
distributions
  • model
    normal
    population
    id
    ansur_ii_2012
    name
    US Army (ANSUR II 2012)
    sampling
    military_screened
    sex
    M
    n
    4082
    years
    2012
    source
    ansur_ii_2012
    params
    mean
    175.6
    sd
    6.85
    unit
    cm
    conditioned_on
    • human.biological_sex
    • human.age
  • model
    normal
    population
    id
    ansur_ii_2012
    name
    US Army (ANSUR II 2012)
    sampling
    military_screened
    sex
    F
    n
    1986
    years
    2012
    source
    ansur_ii_2012
    params
    mean
    162.8
    sd
    6.42
    unit
    cm
    conditioned_on
    • human.biological_sex
    • human.age
  • model
    empirical_percentiles
    population
    id
    nhanes_anthro_2015_2018
    name
    US civilian 20+ (NHANES 2015-2018)
    sampling
    civilian_representative
    sex
    M
    years
    2015-2018
    source
    nhanes_anthro_2015_2018
    params
    percentiles
      • 50
      • 175.3
    unit
    cm
    conditioned_on
    • human.biological_sex
    • human.age
    notes
    Median-only from the published report; full percentiles need microdata re-pull.
  • model
    empirical_percentiles
    population
    id
    nhanes_anthro_2015_2018
    name
    US civilian 20+ (NHANES 2015-2018)
    sampling
    civilian_representative
    sex
    F
    years
    2015-2018
    source
    nhanes_anthro_2015_2018
    params
    percentiles
      • 50
      • 161.3
    unit
    cm
    conditioned_on
    • human.biological_sex
    • human.age
    notes
    Median-only from the published report; full percentiles need microdata re-pull.
dependencies
incoming
  • human.biological_sex
  • human.age
outgoing
  • human.arm_span
  • human.foot.length
  • human.hand.length
  • human.sitting_height
  • human.body_mass
evidence
definition_sources
  • ansur_ii_2012
  • nhanes_anthro_2015_2018
  • iso_7250_1
relationship_sources
  • forensic_segment_stature
  • sorkin_1999_stature
confidence
high
status
draft
version
0.1.0
reviewer
notes
Two population priors kept separate (military leaner than civilian); never averaged.