Determination of sex from femora

Forensic Science International

Volumn 113, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 315-321

  Mall, Gita ^a   Graw, Matthias ^b   Gehring, Kristina D ^b   Hubig, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Femur; Identification; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; AUTOPSY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0343006757     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(00)00240-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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