Sex diagnosis of Chinese skulls using multiple stepwise discriminant function analysis

✍ Scribed by Hong-Wei Song; Lin Zi Qing; Jia Jing Tao

• Book ID: 103902216
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 363 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0379-0738
• DOI: 10.1016/0379-0738(92)90157-r

✦ Synopsis

Sixty Chinese skulls (30 males and 30 females) from Liaoning Province of the People's Republic of China were used in this study. Forty-one variables on each skull were measured and one group of 14 and a second group of 5 variables were selected from all the variables by applying multiple stepwise regression on a computer. Discriminant equations for the 14 and 5 variables for sex diagnosis have been obtained and these variables are highly significant. The discriminant rate for the group of 5 variables resulted in accurate sex determination in 96.7% of cases. For the group of 14 variables there was 100% success rate.