Remodeling Forensic Skeletal Age: Modern Applications and New Research Directions

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 testimonyProvides 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 designIncludes examples, theory and guidance on how to develop models for age estimation and reviews the impact of population-specific and universal approaches INDICE: A. Longstanding Problems of the Population? 1. Using the FDB/Terry Collection data for Suchey-Brooks scores to demonstrate problems of the common Overlap Methods? 2. Testing for population differences in senescence using score data to understand the effects of reference sample choices 3. Predictive ability of indicators across multiple populations in both a universal and population specific framework for aging subadults B. Aging Across the Ages 4. Aging the 'very old' 5. Population variation in growth and age estimation of juvenile skeletal remains 6. The Age Gestalt C. Computational Methods Come of Age 7. Hounsfield/voxel data and age estimation, with a focus on subjectivity and stages   8. Machine learning and local modeling approaches for interpretability 9. A computational framework for estimating population affinity and adult age-at-death from shape measures of the pubic symphysis D. Classic Indicators Rejuvenated 10. Using high dimensional data for the pubic symphysis: population level and life history factors variation 11. The bandpass filtering of bending energy in age at death determination: pubic symphysis 12. Application of the recent San Millán-Rissech acetabular adult aging method in an African American sample: preliminary results

• ISBN: 978-0-12-824370-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés