bruzek02 {PELVIS} | R Documentation |
Internal function for sexing the human os coxae using Bruzek's method (2002)
Description
Produces a single (and non-probabilistic) sex estimate from five characters observed on the human os coxae, following Bruzek (2002)
Usage
bruzek02(x)
Arguments
x |
A character vector of length 5, having three possible values: ‘F’, ‘0’ or ‘M’. |
Value
One unique character value, ‘F’, ‘I’ or ‘M’, according to the majority rule exposed by Bruzek (2002).
Note
This is mainly an internal function for the R-Shiny application implemented in PELVIS.
Author(s)
Frédéric Santos, <frederic.santos@u-bordeaux.fr>
References
Bruzek, J. (2002) A method for visual determination of sex, using the human hip bone. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117, 157–168. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.10012
Examples
# Here we create manually an individual:
individual <- c(PrSu = "M", GrSN = "F",
CArc = "F", InfP = "0", IsPu = "F")
individual
# Determination produced by Bruzek (2002): female individual.
bruzek02(individual)
[Package PELVIS version 2.0.4 Index]