Stature Prediction in Short Boys

Predictions of adult stature were made for 28 short boys without organic disease. Forty‐five pairs of matching estimates were made by the Bayley‐Pinneau (B‐P) and Roche‐Wainer‐Thissen (RWT) methods. The errors were less than 3 cm for 20 of the B‐P estimates and 27 of the RWT estimates with the RWT method tending to overpredict slightly and the B‐P method tending to underpredict slightly. The predictions for these short boys are slightly more accurate than those for normal boys at similar chronological ages and slightly less accurate than those for normal boys of similar skeletal age. The Roche‐Wainer‐Thissen predictions are more accurate than the Bayley‐Pinneau predictions and they are independent of the extent to which short boys are below the mean in stature.