Ancestry assessment using random forest modeling

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 583-589

  Hefner, Joseph T ^a   Spradley, M Kate ^b   Anderson, Bruce ^c  

^a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Craniometrics; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science; Morphoscopic traits; Quantitative methods; Random forest model

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANCESTRY GROUP; CEPHALOMETRY; DATA MINING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKULL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CEPHALOMETRY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA MINING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SKULL;

EID: 84899121123     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12402     Document Type: Article

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