Discriminant function sexing of fragmentary and complete femora: Standards for contemporary Croatia

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 509-512

  Šlaus, Mario ^a   Strinović, Davor ^b   Škavić, Josip ^b   Petrovečki, Vedrana ^b  

^a Croatian Defence Academy   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Croatia; Discriminant functions; Femur; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science; Physical anthropology; Positive identification; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR HEAD; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METRIC SYSTEM; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKELETON; STANDARD; VICTIM;

EID: 0037696650     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2002159     Document Type: Article

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