Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jul 16, 2026

Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
A customized birthweight centile calculator developed for an Australian population
Max Mongelli1, Francesc Figueras, Andre Francis
1Division of Women and Children Health, Napean Hospital, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
Abstract:
Customized percentiles improve the differentiation between constitutional and pathological smallness of the fetus and the neonate. We studied data from 12420 pregnancies in Sydney to develop Australian coefficients for customized fetal growth and birthweight centiles. Significant coefficients were derived for maternal height, weight, parity and ethnic origin as well as gestational age and the baby's gender. Standardised comparison with results from previous reports from England and New Zealand shows marked similarities in the predicted birthweight at term, confirming international applicability of the concept of adjusting for constitutional factors when calculating the growth potential of an individual fetus.
Related Concept Videos
z Scores and Area Under the Curve
Normal Distribution
Population Growth
Applications of Normal Distribution
The heights of 15 to 18-year-old males from Chile from 1984 to 1985 followed a normal distribution. The mean height is 172.36...
Central Limit Theorem
The sample size, n, that...
Estimating Population Mean with Known Standard Deviation
The confidence interval estimate will have the form as follows:
(point estimate - error bound, point estimate + error bound)
The...
