Collective component scoring method used to obtain age from medial end of fourth ribs in Indian females
Sunil M. Doshi, Anupam Kumar Bansal, Lavlesh Kumar, Hetal C. Kyada, Viral Chauhan, Kalpesh M. Zanzrukiya · Journal of Punjab Academy of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology · 2018
Background and Objectives: Component based methods were used individually to study medial end of rib with reference to its pit depth, pit shape and rim and wall patterns. Factors such as sex differences and biomechanical variation between individuals may affect the determination of age from the rib. This study incorporates all these three components into a “collective component scoring” method to estimate age from female ribs as well as to ascertain whether there is any bilateral variation present for the said method or not.