Advancing Estimation of Chronological Age by Utilizing Available Evidence Based on Two Radiographical Methods

Overview

Journal Int J Legal Med

Specialty Forensic Sciences

Date 2018 May 9

PMID 29736772

Citations 5

Authors

Oyvind Bleka

Torbjorn Wisloff

Pal Skage Dahlberg

Veslemoy Rolseth

Thore Egeland

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Abstract

This paper describes a strategy for estimating chronological age of individuals based on age indicators of X-ray of the hand and the third molar tooth. The great majority of studies in the field provide group-wise data of different formats, which makes them difficult to compare and utilize in a model. In this paper, we have provided a framework to utilize different types of data formats to build a common model for estimating chronological age. We used transition analysis to describe the relationship between the age indicators and chronological age. Further, likelihood ratio weight of evidence and posterior distribution of chronological age were used to model the distribution of chronological age given the observed age indicators. Being able to utilize such a large amount of data, with different data formats, from different studies, as presented in this paper improves previous age estimation methods.

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