Toward an empirically derived typology of obese persons.

Abstract excerpt

The MMPI, medical, anthropomorphic, and laboratory evaluations were completed by 260 obese patients (211 females, 49 males) at a New York hospital. Biological and psychological variables were separately subjected to principal components analyses. Fifteen biological and five psychological components were extracted. A three-cluster solution was selected from a K-means clustering on biological components, replicated...

Topics

• Adult
• Algorithms
• Cluster Analysis
• Discriminant Analysis
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Obesity
• Obesity, Morbid
• Phenotype
• Physical Fitness
• Reproducibility of Results