Stature and sex estimate using foot and shoe dimensions
Introduction
In forensic sciences to determine one's sex and to estimate how tall one is quite important during the identity defining stage. The identity of the victim or the suspect that is tried to be defined will be searched in a 50% reduced population within the determination of one's sex. Beside the body appearance, some parts of a skeleton and bones, private/personal clothes and other belongings, and the other numerous data can be made use of to determine one's sex in fatal or harmless incidents [1], [2], [3].
Anatomical and mathematical methods were used with the purpose of estimating how tall the person is that his/her corpse or some parts of his/her corpse found. In this study, it will be researched whether the person is male or female and how tall he/she is by the help of his/her foot and shoe size.
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Materials
Harpender anthropometry sets, balance and apparatus to measure stature.
Methods
In this research, randomly, some measurements were done on the orthopedically healthy adult patients who were applied to Osmangazi University, Medical Faculty, Eskisehir, Turkey. The stature, right and left feet and maximum shoe length and width of 294 males and 275 females over 19 years old within the sample group were measured.
Results
The majority of the model groups were from the central Turkey area (27.83%), with the average age of the males as 32.70 ± 12.55, and the females 32.23 ± 12.71 (Table 1).
It was found that a correlation between stature and other variables as regards the sex. Cut-off values were calculated for each sex (Table 2).
The formula which was obtained in regression analysis in order to estimate stature according to sex when measurements of the right and left shoe and foot were known (Table 3).
In terms of sex,
Discussion and conclusion
The foot and shoe measurements and heights from a group of 294 Turkish males and 275 Turkish females, with the majority being from the central Anatolian area (female 49.82% and male 50.17%) were appraised. No significant difference was found in either male or female left and right side measurements.
In all male and female measurement results, a significant difference was reported between the maximum right and left foot and shoe length and width averages in relation to the shoe sizes of male and
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