Journal of Fundamental an International License . Lib RELATIVE AGE EFFECT DIFFE S. M. Mat-Rasid 1 , M. R. A Adnan 2 , N 1 East Coast Environmental 2 Faculty of Applied Social S 3 Faculty of Health Science A ABSTRACT In purpose to avoid subjectivi athlete selection according t Apr-June, Q3: July-Sept and Cluster Analysis (CA) and Dis physical attributes and motor moderate and low performanc DA. Result found that there a birth-month quartile. Coaches making of children selection in Keywords: relative age effect Author Correspondence, e-ma doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ Journal of Fundamental and Ap ISSN 1112-9867 Available online at http://w nd Applied Sciences is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribut braries Resource Directory . We are listed under Research Associatio IN PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES AND MOT ERENT BIRTH-MONTH QUARTILE Abdullah 1,2,* , H. Juahir 1 , R. M. Musa 2 , A. B. H N. A. Kosni 2 , V. Eswaramoorthi 3 and N. Alias 3 l Research Institute (ESERI), Universiti Sulta 21300 Terengganu, Malaysia Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, 21 Malaysia es, School of Rehabilitation Science, Universi Abidin, 21300 Terengganu, Malaysia Published online: 08 August 2017 ity and bias selection, this study would propo to their particular birth-month quartile (Q1 Q4: Oct-Dec). This study thus combined sta scriminant Analysis (DA) to determine the re r fitness. CA assigned the children into thr ce. The given groups were considered as pre are discriminated variables that significantly may consider the proposed parameters as a b n talent identification program to reduce RAE t; physical attribute; motor fitness; talent iden ail: razali896@yahoo.com /jfas.v9i2s.34 pplied Sciences www.jfas.info tion-NonCommercial 4.0 ons category. TOR FITNESS AT H. M. Maliki 2 , A. 3 an Zainal Abidin, 1300 Terengganu, iti Sultan Zainal ose to carry out the 1: Jan-March; Q2: atistical analysis of elative age effect in ree groups of high, edefined classes for different in each of baseline in decision Es. ntification. Research Article Special Issue