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Table 3 Measured and predicted BMI for Stunkard Silhouette numbers

From: Assessing the accuracy of two proxy measures for BMI in a semi-rural, low-resource setting in Guatemala

Stunkard body figure

n

%

Measured BMI

Predicted BMI

Lower 95% CI

Mean

Upper 95% CI

Lower 95% CI

Mean

Upper 95% CI

1

5

5.4

21.173

22.823

30.736

19.823

20.248

20.672

2

4

4.3

20.706

21.388

25.870

21.344

22.194

23.042

3

12

13.0

21.241

23.696

29.580

22.865

24.14

25.412

4

27

29.3

22.526

25.636

31.048

24.386

26.086

27.782

5

23

25.0

25.986

28.042

31.804

25.907

28.032

30.152

6

8

8.7

26.980

29.830

38.606

27.428

29.978

32.522

7

11

12.0

30.309

32.501

38.009

28.949

31.924

34.892

8

1

1.1

-

35.262

-

30.47

33.87

37.262

9

1

1.1

-

36.645

-

31.991

35.816

39.632