Sexual determination of the femur using discriminant functions. Analysis of a Spanish population of known sex and age.
Until present, functions for sexual discrimination of a Spanish population from series of known sex and age were not available. In this work, we present a sample of 132 femora (72 females and 60 males) belonging to a Spanish population of adult individuals of known filiation deposited in the Complutense University of Madrid. The ten mathematical functions which yield a higher sexual discrimination in each part of the femur, were selected. The resulting percentages of correspondence varied between 84 and 97% when each variable was considered independently, and a 99% is obtained with two variables of the epiphyses combined.
Trancho
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Department of Anthropology, Biology Faculty, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Robledo
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López-Bueis
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Sánchez
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013030:Spain