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Remodeling Forensic Skeletal Age
Modern Theory and Advanced Methods
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2022
- Editors: Bridget F.B. Algee‐Hewitt, Jieun Kim
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 3 3 9 - 6
Remodeling Forensic Skeletal Age: Estimation, Evidence and Research presents a multidisciplinary approach for age estimation which incorporates groundbreaking research in the fi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteRemodeling Forensic Skeletal Age: Estimation, Evidence and Research presents a multidisciplinary approach for age estimation which incorporates groundbreaking research in the fields of data science, systems engineering, forensic anthropology and advanced imaging, which bridges the gap between research, academia and practice. This approach is made accessible by the provision of an end-to-end example from data acquisition, statistical modelling and interpretation using a GUI, as a demonstration for best practice.
Written for a global perspective by leading, international experts, the contributors provide an introduction, conceptional understanding and taxonomy of statistical frameworks and computational approaches, including the Bayesian paradigm and machine learning techniques for age estimation.
- Discusses core concepts in age estimation, key terminology and challenges how the reader generates sound models which can be translated into forensic reports and expert testimony
- Provides a step-wise approach and best practice recommendations for data acquisition, considerations in sampling, exploratory data analysis, visualization and sources of error for appropriate and reproducible research design
- Includes examples, theory and guidance to develop models for age estimation and review the impact of population-specific and universal approaches
Primary: Practitioners, Researchers, Graduate Students and Academicians in Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology.
Secondary: Practitioners, Researchers, Graduate Students and Academicians in Forensic Science, Human Biology, Medicine, and Bioanthropology. Advanced Undergraduate Students in Anthropology.
- No. of pages: 600
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 1, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128193396
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Bridget F.B. Algee‐Hewitt
Bridget F.B. Algee-Hewitt is a biological anthropologist who studies skeletal and genetic trait variation in modern humans. Her research combines data analytic and hands-on laboratory approaches to the estimation of the personal identity parameters – like sex, ancestry, stature, and age – that are essential components of the biological profile used in forensic identification of unknown human remains and for the paleodemographic reconstruction of past population histories in bioarchaeology. Concerns for social justice, human rights, and issues of group disparities underlie much of her work. As a practicing forensic anthropologist and geneticist, she provides forensic casework consultation to the medico-legal community.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford UniversityJK
Jieun Kim
Jieun is a biological anthropologist whose specialty lies in human skeletal biology and its application to forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology. Her doctoral dissertation investigated the extent of population variation (if it ever exits) in skeletal aging process using Southeast and East Asian populations and sought to develop a more inclusive age-at-death estimation method that is broadly applicable to Asians. To complete her fieldwork abroad, she was awarded the Wenner-Gren Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, the W. M. Bass Endowment and W. Leitner Award offered by the Forensic Anthropology Center, UTK, and the W. K. McClure Scholarship for the Study of World Affairs, UTK. She has been working with skeletal remains in Korea, Japan, Thailand and the U.S., and as a part of the National Institute of Justice postdoctoral research, is currently building 3D laser scan data on those populations to extend the applicability of the fully computation age estimation methods to more diverse populations.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Knoxville