Factors affecting accuracy and precision of thermal summation models of insect development used to estimate post-mortem intervals

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 401-408

  Richards, Cameron S ^a   Villet, Martin H ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Calliphoridae; Chrysomya chloropyga; Developmental threshold (D 0); Forensic entomology; Statistics; Thermal summation constant (K)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; ENTOMOLOGY; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 50849118469     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-008-0243-5     Document Type: Article

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