Facial soft tissue depth statistics and enhanced point estimators for craniofacial identification: The debut of the shorth and the 75-shormax

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1439-1457

  Stephan, Carl N ^a,b   Simpson, Ellie K ^c   Byrd, John E ^a  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Forensic Science South Australia ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Facial approximation; Facial reconstruction; Facial soft tissue thickness; Forensic science; Photographic superimposition; Skeletal identification; Video superimposition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FACE; FACE SURGERY; FACIAL APPROXIMATION; FACIAL SOFT TISSUE THICKNESS; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPERIMPOSITION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKELETAL IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEO SUPERIMPOSITION; YOUNG ADULT;

FACIAL APPROXIMATION; FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION; FACIAL SOFT TISSUE THICKNESS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPERIMPOSITION; SKELETAL IDENTIFICATION; VIDEO SUPERIMPOSITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FACE; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903759142     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12252     Document Type: Article

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