Statistical estimators of frontal sinus cross section ontogeny from very noisy data

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-8

  Prossinger, Hermann ^a,c   Bookstein, Fred L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Institute for Anthropology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Frontal sinus; Log normal distribution; Ontogeny; Sexual dimorphism; Sigmoid function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL SINUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

SIGMOIDEA;

EID: 0038760851     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10060     Document Type: Article

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