Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Estimation of stature from hand and foot dimensions among university girl-students in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
AU  - Banik S D
AU  - Das S
AU  - Bose K
AU  - Gritlahre M
Y1  - 2016
VL  - 54
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 291
EP  - 297
KW  - Hand
KW  - Foot
KW  - Asymmetry
KW  - Stature estimation
KW  - Regression
KW  - Multiplication factor
N2  - 
N2  - Theoretical development of the inter-relationship between stature and other body dimensions is important
in forensic investigation and cases of hospitalized patients with physical disabilities. Principal aim of the study was to
estimate stature from bilateral measurements of hands and feet (length and breadth). Participants were 135 girl
students, aged 18–22 years in a University in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. Ordinary least squares (OLS) and
multiplication factor (MF) analyses were used to estimate stature. The differences in stature (actual stature minus
estimated stature) were compared between two methods. Mean stature was 155.51 cm. Mean values of estimated
stature and difference from the actual stature was recorded from: left hand length (OLS: 155.17 cm, difference 0.34 cm;
MF: 155.65cm, difference -0.14 cm), left hand breadth (OLS: 156.16 cm, difference -0.66 cm; MF: 155.77 cm, difference
-0.26 cm), right hand breadth (OLS: 155.69 cm, difference -0.18 cm; MF: 155.80 cm, difference -0.29 cm), left foot
length (OLS: 153.98 cm, difference 1.53 cm; MF: 155.67cm, difference -0.16 cm), and left foot breadth (OLS: 155.38 cm,
difference 0.13 cm; MF: 156.38 cm, difference -0.87 cm). The estimated stature from MF consistently overestimated the actual stature except left foot breadth whereas the regression analysis marginally underestimated it except hand breadth. The OLS more precisely estimated stature than MF.
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