Abstract: Objective Comprehensively analysis the correlation and the law of variation between the height of a person and the length of his/her footprint. Methods Collecting footprint samples of those people of different age and sex from different area all of our country, and adopt the regressive analysis method to study these samples. Results A sum of useful data and regressive equation were obtained. Conclusion The correlation between the height of a person and the length of his/her footprint is obviously, the approximate height of a person can be reckoned according to the length of his/her footprints.

Key words: footprint, height, correlation