Table 3 Commonly used age-at-death methodologies.

From: Age related changes of rib cortical bone matrix and the application to forensic age-at-death estimation

Reference

Method

R2

RE

SDE

E1

Rib (n = 113)

0.863

4.64

-

Bonicelli et al.37

Rib (n = 24)

0.949

2.14

0.4

Zioupos et al.36

Femur (n = 14)

0.997

0.6

0.31

Griffin et al.53

Teeth (n = 31)

0.92

8.7

-

Alkass et al.54

Teeth (n = 57)

0.99

1.88

1.3

Huang et al.55

Blood (n = 89)

0.819

7.87

-

Bekaert et al.31

Blood (n = 206)

0.95

3.75

-

Bekaert et al. 31

Teeth (n = 29)

0.74

4.86

-

Martin-De Las Heras et al.28

Teeth (n = 22)

0.65

14.9

-

  1. Comparison of accuracy and error of the estimation of the main laboratory-based approaches in age estimation (R2: coefficient of determination; RE: mean absolute residual error; SDE: standard deviation of absolute residual errors).
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