John Komlos
How to (and How Not to) Analyze Deficient Height Samples
abstract historians may make misleading inferences historical height data based military records universal conscription many armies minimum height requirements methods allowing missing small soldiers better others two decades experience working deficient height distributions yield strategies use avoid order obtain robust estimates author concludes quantile bend estimator procedure avoided procedures availablethe komloskim method truncated ordinary least squares regression truncated maximum likelihood regressionare robust appropriate demonstrates consequences choices among methods showing determine whether height evidence implies early industrial revolution england led improving declining standard living keywords anthropometric historyindustrial revolutionliving standards