Statistics and physical anthropology : application of the bayesian approach to improve age at death assessment on the skeleton
 
 
Description:  One of the areas where physical anthropologists need to apply more statistical tools is in the estimation of age at death on the skeleton remains. Since the age estimated is the biological age which is different from the chronological one, each result is always associated with a standard deviation. Besides, we have to rely on several parts of the skeleton. We have developped a method based only on two indicators and using Bayers theorem which we believe does increase the accuracy of age estimation.
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Date:  2003-02-26
Start Time:   14:30
Speaker:  Aurore Schmitt (Centre Anthropologie, Univ. Bordeaux I, France)
Place:  Room 5.5
Research Groups: -Probability and Statistics
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