Sex Classification Using the Three-Dimensional Tibia Form or Shape Including Population Specificity Approach

0441248 - ARÚ 2016 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Brzobohatá, Hana - Krajíček, V. - Horák, Z. - Velemínská, J.
Sex Classification Using the Three-Dimensional Tibia Form or Shape Including Population Specificity Approach.
Journal of Forensic Sciences. Roč. 60, č. 1 (2015), s. 29-40. ISSN 0022-1198. E-ISSN 1556-4029
Grant - others:GA UK(CZ) 613012
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : forensic science * geometric morphometrics * sexual dimorphism * optical scanning * computed tomography-derived models * tibia
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
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The aims of this study were to enable geometric morphometric sex classification using tibial proximal and distal sexual dimorphism and to evaluate the secular trend of tibial shape/form from the early 20th century to the present day. The study samples consisted of 61 adult tibias from an early 20th-century Czech population and 57 three-dimensional tibias from a 21st-century population. Discriminant function analysis with cross-validation was carried out to assess the accuracy of sex classification. Shape analysis revealed significant sex differences in both tibial extremities of the 21st-century sample and in the proximal tibia of the 20th-century population. Sex-based divergence varied between the analyzed samples, raising the issues of population specificity and diachronic change. Classification using tibial form was more successful than using tibial shape. The highest values of correct assignment (91.80% and 88.52%) were found using the form from the early 20th Czech population.
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