Stature estimation from long bone lengths in Bulgarians

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 221-232

  Radoinova, Dobrinka ^b   Tenekedjiev, K ^b   Yordanov, Yordan ^a  

^a Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences   (Bulgaria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BULGARIA; FEMALE; FIBULA; FORECASTING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMERUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIBIA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BULGARIA; FEMALE; FIBULA; FORECASTING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; TIBIA;

EID: 0036367724     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0018-442x-00030     Document Type: Article

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