PELVIS Reference Data: Human Os Coxae for Sex Estimation

Three datasets supporting a 2019 forensic anthropology method for sexing the human os coxae. The reference sample contains 592 ossa coxae, with additional data from 518 right bones and 99 CT-scans. Jaroslav Brůžek and colleagues from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique authored the related research.

Use Cases

• Training logistic regression models for sex estimation based on nonmetric traits.
• Studying the impact of bone lateralization on sex prediction accuracy.
• Creating 3D anatomical models from CT-scan data for morphological analysis.
• Validating the PELVIS R package's classification method against a reference sample.

Strengths

• Reference sample of 592 ossa coxae provides a substantial learning dataset.
• Includes a specific dataset of 518 right ossa coxae for asymmetry analysis.
• Contains 3D virtual coxal data derived from 99 CT-scan images.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for individual datasets beyond the reference sample is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Collection Method

Likely collected from osteological collections and medical imaging; described as a reference sample and test data for a published method.