The Use of Roche, Wainer, and Thissen's Skeletal Maturity of the Knee
| Autor: | Lyle W. Konigsberg, Valerie Sgheiza |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adolescent Knee Joint media_common.quotation_subject Maximum deviation 01 natural sciences Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Osteogenesis Age Determination by Skeleton Genetics Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine media_common Likelihood Functions 010401 analytical chemistry Forensic anthropology Conclusive evidence Bone age Skeletal maturity 0104 chemical sciences Maturity (psychological) Logistic Models Forensic Anthropology Female Psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forensic Sciences. 64:1769-1775 |
| ISSN: | 1556-4029 0022-1198 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1556-4029.14073 |
| Popis: | The Roche, Wainer, and Thissen (RWT) knee method was designed to assess maturity in living individuals, but is infrequently cited in studies of skeletal measures for legal age thresholds or estimation of age-at-death for forensic cases. We implement the RWT method using R scripts and analyze its utility in establishing an age threshold of 18 years. We fit the RWT model and verify its accuracy in estimating skeletal age against results and known age data provided by RWT. We also found the transition distribution for full skeletal maturity. Agreement between the RWT method and our implementation was good, with a maximum deviation of 0.03 years. The modes of transition to full skeletal maturity are 18.37 and 17.16 years for males and females. The corresponding Bayes factors are 5.73 and 1.77, indicating that complete skeletal maturity of the knee does not provide conclusive evidence of attainment of 18 years of age. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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