Estimation of Stature from Cephalo-Facial Dimensions by Regression Analysis in Gujarati Population
Twisha Shah, Manharlal Narbheram Patel, Shiva Nath, Ravindra Bhise, Shobhana Karuveetil Menon · Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine · 2015
During investigation in cases of missing body parts or unknown identity, the expert is often required to opine about the personal identification of the body.Stature of a person is a useful indicator of physical identity.Stature estimation leads to a positive identification of the living or when only cephalofacial are brought under examination.The current study dealt with developing regression equation for stature estimation from cephalo-facial dimensions and to find out the correlation among body height with each cephalo-facial dimensions of Gujarati people.This leads to positive identification of the living or cadaver.Eight cephalo-facial dimensions of 901 Gujarati (676 male and 225 female) namely maximum head length, maximum head breadth, bizygomatic breadth, bigonial diameter, morphological facial length, physiognomic facial length, and total cephalo-facial height and biocular breadth along with body height was measured.It was marked that the mean stature and cephalo-facial measurements of males were significantly higher than that of females.The correlation coefficient (r) of all cephalo-facial dimensions were less than 0.5 which means stature estimation from cephalo-facial dimensions is not reliable.Multiple regression equations are more reliable than linear regression equations.