Estimation of Body Composition of Female Intercollegiate Basketball Players

Abstract

In brief: The body composition of 49 female intercollegiate basketball players was used to derive a sport-specific equation and to assess the applicability of the Sloan et al (population-specific) and Jackson et al (generalized) equations for use with this sample. The sport-specific equation yielded an adjusted multiple regression of.71 and a standard error of the estimate (SEE) of.0077. A comparative analysis indicated that mean body density was significantly underestimated by 0.0112 gmml⁻¹ using the Sloan and by 0.0126 gmml⁻¹ using the Jackson equations. The SEEs for the Sloan (.0073 gmml⁻¹) and Jackson (.0085 gm ml⁻¹) equations were low; however, each equation produced a large total error (.014 and.016 gmml⁻¹).