Sex Determination from the Talus of Koreans by Discriminant Function Analysis*

U‐Young Lee, Seung‐Ho Han, Dae‐Kyoon Park, Yi‐Suk Kim, Deog‐Im Kim, In‐Hyuk Chung, Myung‐Hoon Chun

2011-10-07articleJournal of Forensic Sciences52 citationsclosed

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Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Forensic and Genetic Research Morphological variations and asymmetry

Abstract

The aims of this study were to investigate the sex discriminating potential of the talus in Koreans and compare this with other analyses in different populations. Statistical analyses were performed using data from nine measurements acquired from 140 tali (70 men, 70 women). The talus of Koreans is dimorphic between sexes in all measurements (p < 0.01). Discriminant function equations were generated by univariate, multivariate, and stepwise methods with a range of accuracy from 67.1 to 87.1%. Stepwise equations of other populations did not discriminate the sex of the Korean sample as accurately as each equation's own accuracies. The variables with high accuracy in this study are useful for sex determination of Koreans on the basis of confirmation of population specificity.

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