Use of ordinal categorical variables in skeletal assessment of sex from the cranium

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-112

  Konigsberg, Lyle W ^a   Hens, Samantha M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Averbuch Site; Probit analysis; Sexual dimorphism; Visual sexing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SKELETON; SKULL;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SKULL;

EID: 0031753372     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199809)107:1<97::AID-AJPA8>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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