1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Late. B.R. K. M. Government Medical College, Jagdalpur, CG
2Demonstrator, Department of Microbiology, Late. B.R. K. M. Government Medical College, Jagdalpur, CG
3Professor & Head, L. N. Medical College, Bhopal
4Dean, L. N. Medical College, Bhopal
5Ex Dean and Ex Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Kumar Gyanendra, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Late. B.R.K.M. Government Medical College, Jagdalpur, CG, Email: gyan.aug30@gmail.com
Online published on 19 January, 2018.
Sexual diamorphism can provide information on behavioral and ecological characteristics of extinct species. Sexual diamorphism is predominantly done by long bone, pelvis and skull, but hyoid bone least notable bone for sex determination. In present study 100 adult hyoid bone, out of 72 male and 28 female hyoid bone, remove from corpse and buried in soil, examined using discriminant function analysis (IBM SPSS20). Age of deceased ranged from 18 years to 90 years, four discriminant function were tested and was obtained, Discriminant Function = 2.563 mlgrclt + (−0.265) mlgrcrt + 1.761 dislessc-11.398, Cut off score was (−0.296), 76% accuratelly classified in to their groups. Crossvalidated results showed correct classification in 74% of the cases were correctly classified.
Adult, Discriminant function, Hyoid bone, Sex determination, sexual diamorphism
