Multivariate statistical methods applied to sizing and fit testing

摘要

The difficulty of developing accurate sizing charts for clothing or equipment is often underestimated.Typically,designers intend for the item to fit a psecific range of people.However,accommodation of that range is not always achieved,fit testing is an important part of the design process that allows collection of data where the item is acually treid on and used by people,instead of mannequins.Multivariate statistical procedures are the proper analytic techniques for investigating this fit test data.