A factor analysis of skeletal measurements in Warsaw students

Factor analysis by the Jöreskog method was applied to data obtained from measurements of 19 skeletal measurements of human physique, carried out in 1971 on 166 men and 122 women students of the Warsaw Technical University. Separate analyses were performed for three factors and four factors in both sexes. The basic three factors could be interpreted as: (i) Length of long bones (limb length), (ii) Size of hands and feet, (iii) Body breadth (skeletal frame size). In the four-factor analysis the fourth factor consisted of trunk length in both sexes, linked with head and neck length and biacromial diameter in men, but not in women.