bruzek02 {PELVIS}

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, <[e-mail]>

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)