Morphoscopic Traits and the Assessment of Ancestry

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 287-310

  Hefner, Joseph T ^b,d   Ousley, Stephen D ^c,e   Dirkmaat, Dennis C ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d Joint Prisoners of War Missing in Action Accounting Command Central Identification Lab (JPAC CIL)   (United States)

^e MERCYHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessing ancestry from discrete traits; Canonical analysis of principal coordinates; Computer program macromorphoscopics; K nearest neighbor methods; Metric analyses, definitions of measurements; Morphoscopic traits, ancestry assessment; Morphoscopic traits, in a statistical framework; Nonmetric trait analysis, in forensic anthropology; Nonmetric versus metric, of human skeletal traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882733425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118255377.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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