Precision and accuracy of acetabular size measures in fragmentary hominin pelves obtained using sphere-fitting techniques

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 565-578

  Hammond, Ashley S ^a   Plavcan, J Michael ^b   Ward, Carol V ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

error study; hominin pelves; laser scans; sphere fitting

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACETABULUM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL HOMININ; HIP; JOINT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LUNATE BONE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PELVIS; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SPHERE FITTING TECHNIQUE;

ACETABULUM; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PELVIC BONES; PELVIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875270686     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22228     Document Type: Article

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