What is it about?
We discuss here the estimation of age at death from two indicators (pubic symphysis and the sacro-pelvic surface of the ilium) based on four different osteological series from Portugal, Great-Britain, South Africa or USA (European origin).
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Why is it important?
This statistical approach reduces the bias of the estimates to less than 70% of what was obtained by the initial method. This reduction going up to 52% if knowledge of sex of the individual is available, and produces an age for all the individuals that improves age at death assessment.
Perspectives
The main goal of the present paper was to improve previous approaches to estimate the age at death based on measuring modifications of the pubic symphysis and auricular surface of the ilium
Professor Rui Martins
Universidade de Lisboa
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This page is a summary of: Estimation of age at death from the pubic symphysis and the auricular surface of the ilium using a smoothing procedure, Forensic Science International, June 2012, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.11.031.
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