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In examining the literature, we have found that the names attached to some of these indices are highly inconstant. Thus Wroczynski (1937) attributes the weight: height ratio to Quetelet, and what we have described as Quetelet's index to Kaup.
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Billewicz et al. (1962) studied this question.
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