Open AccessA STUDY OF CORRELATION BETWEEN STATURE AND ARM SPAN OF NORTH INDIAN POPULATION
Author(s) -
Roberton Gautam,
Vasundhara Kulshreshtha,
Pradeep Singh,
Anshu Gupta
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of anatomical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0970-1842
DOI - 10.46351/jas.v26i2pp46-49
Subject(s) - arm span , anthropometry , trunk , demography , correlation , standard deviation , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , positive correlation , population , correlation coefficient , medicine , statistics , mathematics , biology , ecology , geometry , sociology
Age, sex and stature are primary characteristics for identification of an individual. Stature has a definite and proportional biological relationship with each and every part of human body i.e. head, neck, trunk and extremities.Material & Methods: The present study comprised of 300 medical students belonging to North India of age group between 18 yrs. to 25 yrs. of S.N. Medical College, Agra. The two anthropometric parameters, arm span and stature were used to calculate mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.Results: The Pearson’s correlation coefficient was found to be 0.9171 and p value was calculated to be <0.00001 thus, showing a significant positive correlation between the stature and arm span for the North Indian population.Conclusion: The correlation between arm span and the stature in adult males and females, was found to be an accurate predictor of stature. Thus it becomes an important anthropologic tool for the scientists in limb reconstruction surgeries. In mass disasters like train accidents, earthquakes, etc. and where the subject is inhighly decomposed, fragmentary and mutilated form, it can be helpful in determining the identity of an individual.