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Estimation of sex from the talus in prehistoric Native Americans
C Barrett1, W Cavallari, P W Sciulli
1Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA.
Collegium Antropologicum
|January 15, 2002
Abstract:
We present both a multivariate discriminant analysis and a univariate procedure to estimate sex from measures of the talus (length, width and height). Both methods are comparable in accuracy (about 85%), but the univariate procedure ispreferred due to its simplicity.