Corrections for Age in Estimating Older Adults' Stature from Long Bones
Giles, E
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana,IL.


Abstract
Stature estimates based on long bone measurements require a correction factor to compensate for stature decrease in older people. Such a correction should exclude the effect of any secular trend in stature and reflect the age at which stature begins to decrease, sex differences, and the increasing rate of change with age. Stature corrections which meet these requirements for ages 46 through 85, based upon two recent large-scale longitudinal anthropometric studies, are provided in tabular form.

Keywords:
aging, forensic science, height estimation, human identification, long bones, musculoskeletal system, physical anthropology, stature

Paper ID: JFS363910898

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