We have located links that may give you full text access.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
REVIEW
A critical review of sub-adult age estimation in biological anthropology: Do methods comply with published recommendations?
Forensic Science International 2018 July
The diversity of approaches and the high number of publications on sub-adult age estimation is a testament to the relevance of this particular area of forensic anthropological research. However, a downside of this diversity is the many methodological, sampling and statistical discrepancies between publications, which can lead to difficulties in method definition, application and comparison. Several authors have published recommendations highlighting standardized methodological parameters that should be respected and clearly appear in the original publications for anthropological methods to be valid. This study aims to objectively evaluate a corpus of 269 publications on dental and skeletal postnatal sub-adult age estimation using these recommendations translated into descriptors. These descriptors cover five sampling and five statistical parameters that can be considered valid or invalid according to published methodological recommendations. Parameter and descriptor distributions are shown in frequency tables and graphs, illustrating the general invalidity of the sampling and/or statistical protocols. Provided our corpus of methods is an accurate representation of available publications, the extrapolation of these results leads to conclude that most sub-adult age estimates are at worst invalid, at best questionable, and almost certainly method-dependent. In view of this study, rigorous and standardized sampling and statistical approaches should be preferred when applying and building sub-adult age estimation methods.
Full text links
Trending Papers
A Personalized Approach to the Management of Congestion in Acute Heart Failure.Heart International 2023
Potential Mechanisms of the Protective Effects of the Cardiometabolic Drugs Type-2 Sodium-Glucose Transporter Inhibitors and Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in Heart Failure.International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2024 Februrary 21
Get seemless 1-tap access through your institution/university
For the best experience, use the Read mobile app
All material on this website is protected by copyright, Copyright © 1994-2024 by WebMD LLC.
This website also contains material copyrighted by 3rd parties.
By using this service, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy.
Your Privacy Choices
You can now claim free CME credits for this literature searchClaim now
Get seemless 1-tap access through your institution/university
For the best experience, use the Read mobile app