Apparatus for precision calibration of s
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R. G. Carlyon; R. W. Bryant; C. J. Gore; R. E. Walker
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Despite the fact that skinfold calipers are widely used to measure subcutaneous adipose tissue, the current methods of calibration are quite crude. Methods such as hanging masses from the caliper jaws until they remain open, lack validity and reliability because the caliper jaws are stationary inste