Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. We … examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for possible measurement … bounds for the population obesity rate for ten European countries using minimal assumptions on the error process. For men it …

obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative … measures of obesity. In this paper we draw on work in other areas of epidemiology and use latent class analysis to evaluate … alternative measures of obesity in the absence of a gold standard. Using data from a representative sample of US adults we show …