Stature Estimation from the Hand Length: Testing Cross-Population Methods
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F19%3A00110037" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/19:00110037 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/anthropologia_integra/article/view/11668" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/anthropologia_integra/article/view/11668</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/AI2019-1-7" target="_blank" >10.5817/AI2019-1-7</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Stature Estimation from the Hand Length: Testing Cross-Population Methods
Original language description
It has been established that hand length is a suitable parameter for stature estimation in forensic anthropology. However, such estimation is always compromised by population specificity of ordinary regression equations. Based on previously published statistical parameters (average values, regression coefficients) from 87 studies (212 different samples) available in literature, we developed a set of new cross-population equations for estimation of body height from the hand length (Reduced Major Axis Models, Average Regression Models). Subsequently, we tested the accuracy and preciseness of these new equations on five testing samples of primary measurements originating from Czech, Slovak and Bosnian populations and compared the height estimates with the results of traditional Least Squares methods developed on a Czech sample. The results showed that cross-population based models are not suitable for body height estimation from hand length unless they are limited to a narrower geographically confined population group (in our study Europeans of Slavic origin). We propose considering principally similar consequences when estimating the body height from a bone length in forensic skeletal cases.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10700 - Other natural sciences
Result continuities
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Anthropologia integra
ISSN
1804-6665
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
7-31
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