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E B Hook

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PubMed1971

Height and antisocial behavior in XY and XYY boys.

The observed association of the XYY genotype with both (i) large height in childhood and (ii) institutionalization for antisocial behavior suggested that large size per se in childhood might tend to establish personality patterns leading to eventual incarceration for delinquency. To investigate this question, the height distributions of four groups of XY boys in institutions for nonpsychotic, nonretarded juvenile offenders were compared with the published standards as well as the predicted gaussian distributions calculated from the mean and variance of the age-adjusted heights of each group. In none of these groups was there evidence for an increased number of large individuals. But three XYY individuals in the same institutions all had heights greater than the 90th percentile of XY boys of the same race.

Adolescent↗
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Goodness-of-fit based confidence intervals for estimates of the size of a closed population.

Methods for estimating the size of a closed population often consist of fitting some model (e.g. a log-linear model) to data with a missing cell corresponding to the members of the population missed by all reporting sources. Although the use of the asymptotic standard error is the usual method for forming confidence intervals for the population total, the sample sizes are not always large enough to produce valid confidence intervals. We propose a method for forming confidence intervals based upon changes in a goodness-of-fit statistic associated with changes in trial values of the population total.

Epidemiologic Methods↗