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The Use Of Factor Analysis In The Development Of Hand Sizes For Glove Design, Trevor M. Mclain
The Use Of Factor Analysis In The Development Of Hand Sizes For Glove Design, Trevor M. Mclain
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Factor analysis was used to develop a more detailed description of the human hand to be used in the creation of glove sizes; currently gloves sizes are small, medium, and large. The created glove sizes provide glove designers with the ability to create a glove design that can provide fit to the majority of hand variations in both the male and female populations. The research used the American National Survey (ANSUR) data that was collected in 1988. This data contains eighty-six length, width, height, and circumference measurements of the human hand for one thousand male subjects and thirteen hundred female …