Determinants of Physique

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Abstract
The Thurstone centroid method and the method of least squares were used in the factor analysis of 14 linear measurements made on a group of 64 psychotic [male][male]. Two factors were revealed, which the author identifies as isometric and allometric, implying respectively "a common rate of somatic development in all bodily regions," and "growth divergence, according to which growth takes place linearly or circumferentially." There is some theoretical discussion of statistical methods, typology, and determinants of growth. No data are given on the relation of the obtained measurements to clinical type. A bibliography.

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