Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 1

Estimation of Stature and Sex Determination from the Foot and/or Shoe Dimension in Youngsters of Ahmedabad City of India

  • Author:
  • Neha Bavarva1, Pooja Khatri2, Shruti Parikh2, Dhruv Trivedi2, M N Patel3,
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 151 to 156

1Resident Doctor, Community Medicine, Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research, Surat, India

2Department of Statistics, School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

3Professor, Department of Statistics, School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Abstract

Foot print/shoe print is one of the valuable physical evidence encountered in the crime scene. The aim of the study was to develop a formula to estimate the stature and determine the sex of an individual using foot and/or shoe dimensions. Our study is based on the stature, shoe size, left and right shoe dimensions, left and right foot length and width measurement of a target group of 468 youngsters of age 17–30 years, randomly selected from the Ahmedabad city of India. Of which 433 were again selected for data analysis and the remaining 35 were used to verify the formula of determining their sex.

Keywords

Forensic Anthropology, correlation coefficient, t-test, logistic equation, linear regression equation