Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015
soldiers enlisted by the U.S. military between 1901 and 1913. We use truncated regression technique for estimating average … decline of more than 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …