A geometric-morphometric study of the cretan humerus for sex identification

Forensic Science International

Volumn 189, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 111.e1-111.e8

  Kranioti, Elena F ^a,b   Bastir, Markus ^a   Sánchez Meseguer, Andrea ^a   Rosas, Antonio ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Digital radiographs; Forensic anthropology; Geometric morphometrics; Humerus; Sex identification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMERUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; GREECE; HUMANS; HUMERUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION BY SKELETON;

EID: 67449098330     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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