Bayesian calibration for forensic age estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1779-1790

  Ferrante, Luigi ^a   Skrami, Edlira ^a   Gesuita, Rosaria ^a   Cameriere, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACERATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Asymmetric Laplace distribution; Bayesian calibration; Forensic statistics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC LAPLACE BAYESIAN CALIBRATION; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CAUCASIAN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; X RAY; ADOPTION; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTISTRY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; OFFENDER; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT;

ADOPTION; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRIMINALS; FORENSIC DENTISTRY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS;

EID: 84926421776     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6448     Document Type: Article

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