title: Sex diagnosis of Chinese skulls using multiple stepwise discriminant function analysis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Anthropology, Faculty of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Z Q
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Jia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D008875:Middle Aged; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology*