Statistical sex determination from craniometrics: Comparison of linear discriminant analysis, logistic regression, and support vector machines

Forensic Science International

Volumn 245, Issue , 2014, Pages 204.e1-204.e8

  Santos, Frédéric ^a   Guyomarc'h, Pierre ^a   Bruzek, Jaroslav ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Forensic anthropology population data; Population; Reliability; Sex estimation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; ANCESTRY GROUP; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CEPHALOMETRY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 84911973757     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.10.010     Document Type: Article

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