Validation and reliability of the sex estimation of the human os coxae using freely available DSP2 software for bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology

• Published in: American journal of physical anthropology Vol. 164; no. 2; pp. 440 - 449
• Main Authors: Brůžek, Jaroslav, Santos, Frédéric, Dutailly, Bruno, Murail, Pascal, Cunha, Eugenia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Adults; Anthropology; Archaeology; bone dimensions; Classification; diagnose sexuelle probabiliste; Discriminant analysis; Female; Forensic anthropology; Forensic Anthropology - methods; Gender differences; Humans; Male; os coxae; Pelvic Bones - anatomy & histology; population nonspecific standards; Reliability; Sectioning; Sex Determination by Skeleton - methods; sexing; Software; Validity; sexing; diagnose sexuelle probabiliste; population nonspecific standards; os coxae; bone dimensions

Objectives A new tool for skeletal sex estimation based on measurements of the human os coxae is presented using skeletons from a metapopulation of identified adult individuals from twelve independent population samples. For reliable sex estimation, a posterior probability greater than 0.95 was cons...