Fordisc 3 and Statistical Methods for Estimating Sex and Ancestry

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 311-329

  Ousley, Stephen D ^a,c   Jantz, Richard L ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c MERCYHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Forensic Anthropology Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyzing ancestry in Fordisc 3, morphological changes; Commonly used methods of DFA, the LDFA; Data errors, measurements in analyzing; DFA and Fordisc.3, biological aspects of individuals; Fordisc 3, statistical, in estimating sex, ancestry; Fordisc and DFA, evaluations by practitioner; Human craniometric variation; Reviewing DFA requirements, DFA criteria; Univariate and multivariate data, using LDFA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879950505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118255377.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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