A novel method for estimating distributions of body mass index

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of the distributions considered for simulation

	Normal	Log normal^a	Gamma^a
Parameters	μ = 24 (mean) σ = 4 (standard deviation)	Log(μ) = 0 (log mean) Log(σ) = 0.1 (log standard deviation)	κ = 1 (shape) θ = 2 (scale)
Mean	24
Standard deviation	4
Skewness	0.007	0.31	1.95
Kurtosis	2.95	3.12	8.47

^aData generated from log normal and the gamma distributions were scaled to have mean of 24 and standard deviation of four

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