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Commentary on the Article “Improving the Prediction of Maturity From Anthropometric Variables Using a Maturity Ratio”

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Alan Nevill University of Wolverhampton

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/pes.2017-0201
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Volume 30: Issue 2
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308–310
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Nevill is with the Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Walsall, United Kingdom. Burton is with the School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Address author correspondence to Alan Nevill at a.m.nevill@wlv.ac.uk.
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