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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 159, Issue 1, Pages 182-183Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22839
Keywords
sex estimation; dichotomous variables; ambiguous categories
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- Australian Research Council [FT 120100299]
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Phenice (Am J Phys Anthropol 30 (1969): 297-301) reported a success rate of 96% for his method of sex determination based on three morphological features of the pelvis. Numerous studies have tested and evaluated the method with affirmative results. The results of the study by MacLaughlin and Bruce (J Forensic Sci 35 (1990): 1384-1392) were inconsistent with other studies, reporting far lower rates of accuracy and a greater degree of inter-observer error. The authors believe that this may be the result of the inclusion of an ambiguous classification category. Revised modelling using forced classification of sex provides much higher classification rates with the implication that the poor results reported by MacLaughlin and Bruce were due to methodological error for the most part. (C) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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