Testing the quality of nonadult Bayesian dental age assessment methods to juvenile skeletal remains: The Lisbon collection children and secular trend effects

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-283

  Heuzé, Yann ^a   Cardoso, Hugo F V ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Dental development; Probabilistic methods; Reference collection; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SKELETON; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PORTUGAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOOTH;

EID: 39049089143     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20741     Document Type: Article

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