PELVIS (version 2.0.4)

bruzek02: 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)

Value

One unique character value, ‘F’, ‘I’ or ‘M’, according to the majority rule exposed by Bruzek (2002).

Arguments

x

A character vector of length 5, having three possible values: ‘F’, ‘0’ or ‘M’.

Author

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)