Sex differences in the human sternum
Rother, P.; Hunger, H.; Liebert, U.; Seidemann, D.
Gegenbaurs Morphologisches Jahrbuch 121(1): 29-37
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-5840 PMID: 1158101 Document Number: 93022
We investigated 14 male and 14 female breast-bones of adult human beings by measuring 2 parameters of length, 2 of breadth and 2 of thickness and estimated their frequency distributions. They overlap more or less. Therefore we made a discriminant analysis in order to differentiate male and female skeletons by means of a-l 6 measures of the breast-bone. The result was satisfying. The received discriminant function may be used in the sex diagnosis in forensic osteology, especially, if the more reliable criterions of the pelvic measures are missing.