Correlation of foot length with height and weight in school age children

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-95

  Grivas, Theodoros B ^a   Mihas, Constantinos ^a   Arapaki, Angeliki ^a   Vasiliadis, Elias ^a  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Foot; Forensic; Height; Length; Weight

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; FOOT; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOOT; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 38149080524     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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