Reliability test of the visual assessment of cranial traits for sex determination

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 132-137

  Walrath, Dana E ^a   Turner, Paul ^a   Bruzek, Jaroslav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

Cranium; Dimorphism; Interobserver variation; Inuit; Sex identification

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; RELIABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SKULL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; VISION;

CEPHALOMETRY; FOSSILS; HUMANS; INUITS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SKULL;

EID: 4544306481     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10373     Document Type: Article

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