[Comprehensively analysis the correlation between the height of a person and the length of his/her handprint].
OBJECTIVE
Comprehensively analysis the correlation and the law of variation between the height of a person and the length of his/her handprint.


METHODS
Collecting handprint samples of those people of different age and sex from different area all of our country, and adopt the regressive analysis method to study these samples.


RESULTS
A sum of useful data and regressive equation were obtained.


CONCLUSIONS
The correlation between the height of a person and the length of his/her handprint is obviously, the approximate height of a person can be reckoned according to the length of his/her handprints.
Hu
Xiang-yang
XY
Hubei Police Officer College, Wuhan 430034, China. huxiangyang8@hotmail.com
Yao
Hui-fang
HF
Lin
Jian-hui
JH
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001827:Body Height; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006225:Hand / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors