Erratum to: Physiological models of body composition and human obesity

Nutrition & Metabolism

Table 7 Comparison of linear (eq. (16)) and non-linear (eq. (9)) regression expressions for predicting body fat fraction from BMI and age.

Subjects	± Age	Linear				Non-linear Model I
		a	b	c	MSR	BMI₀	f₁	c	MSR
Male Caucasians	No	-.166	.0141	----	0.00404	17.20	.624	----	.00409
	Yes	-.218	.0129	.00207	0.00263	19.15	.500	.00194	.00287
Male Caucasian +Hispanic+Black	No	-.145	.0134	-----	.00380	16.71	.594	----	.00385
	Yes	-.206	.0127	.00182	0.00270	18.73	.496	.00172	.00288
Male Asian	Yes	-.156	.0126	.00169	0.00201	15.72	.438	.00169	.00212
Male Puerto Rican	Yes	-.155	.0119	.00163	0.00189	17.84	.536	.00150	.00188
Female Caucasian	No	0.0409	.0113	-----	0.00391	13.50	.739	-----	.00314
	Yes	-.0240	.0104	.00186	0.00281	14.39	.635	.00151	.00244
Female Caucasian +Hispanic+Black	No	0.0494	.0109	------	.00351	13.50	.728	-----	.00276
	Yes	-.0160	.0104	.00169	0.00260	14.37	.642	.00132	.00222
Female Asian	Yes	-.0903	.0153	.00122	0.00137	12.38	.573	.00122	.00140
Female Puerto Rican	Yes	0.0718	.00919	.000947	.00159	12.82	.639	.000737	.00142

The regression parameters (either a, b and c; or BMI0, f1 and c) and the mean square residual error (MSR) for the different ethnic groups are listed.

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