Remodeling Forensic Skeletal Age

Modern Applications and New Research Directions

Jieun Kim, Bridget F.B. Algee‐Hewitt

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780128243701
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128243916
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Remodeling Forensic Skeletal Age: Modern Applications and New Research Directions presents a comprehensive understanding of the analytical frameworks and conceptual approaches surrounding forensic age estimation and the current state of the field. The book also includes a series of recommendations of best practice through chapter-examples that offer theory and guidance for data acquisition, technique and/or model development, and the assessment of impact of the adopted approaches. Written by leading, international experts, the book's contributors provide an introduction, conceptual understanding and taxonomy of statistical frameworks and computational approaches, including the Bayesian paradigm and machine learning techniques for age estimation. - Discusses core concepts in age estimation, along with key terminologies - Presents tactics on how readers can generate sound models that can be translated into forensic reports and expert testimony - Provides a step-wise approach and best practice recommendations for data acquisition, considerations in sampling, exploratory data analysis, visualization, and sources of error for appropriate and reproducible research design - Includes examples, theory and guidance on how to develop models for age estimation and reviews the impact of population-specific and universal approaches

Table of contents

• Remodeling Forensic Skeletal Age
• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Looking
• Chapter 1 Using data from the US Korean War Dead and the Terry Collection to demonstrate problems of the common “overlap methods”
• Chapter 2 Testing for differences in senescence using score data to understand the effects of reference sample choices
• Chapter 3 Subadult age estimation variables: Exploring their varying roles across ontogeny
• Chapter 4 Aging the elderly: Does the skull tell us something about age at death?
• Chapter 5 Population variation in diaphyseal growth and age estimation of juvenile skeletal remains
• Chapter 6 Great expectations: The rise, fall, and resurrection of adult skeletal age estimation
• Chapter 7 A volumetric approach to age estimation informed by voxel selection: Application to the spheno-occipital synchondrosis
• Chapter 8 The consecutive inference of ancestry and age from shape measures of the pubic symphysis
• Chapter 9 The fallacy of forensic age estimation from morphometric quantifications of the pubic symphysis
• Chapter 10 An application of the Bayesian SanMillán-Rissech acetabular aging method to an African American sample: Preliminary results
• Index