Wärmländer Sebastian K T S, Sholts Sabrina B
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Sci Justice. 2011 Sep;51(3):131-4. doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2010.12.001. Epub 2010 Dec 31.
Although the Suchey-Brooks (SB) system is currently the most widely used method for age-at-death estimation from the pubic bone, the system continues to evolve through stepwise improvements. Since the system was developed from a pubic bone sample derived mainly from North Americans, it is unclear how well it performs on populations from other continents. During the last decade, studies of the SB system on pubic bone samples from local populations in Europe and Asia have indicated regional differences in the relationship between age and pubic bone development. However, these studies have for the most part followed different research protocols, which make comparisons between their results less meaningful. It would be most useful if future regional analysis of the SB system were done in a rigorous and uniform fashion, following standard procedures. In this paper, sampling and statistical considerations are outlined that hopefully will help to standardize research on the SB system.
尽管苏切伊-布鲁克斯（SB）系统目前是从耻骨进行死亡年龄估计时使用最广泛的方法，但该系统仍在通过逐步改进不断发展。由于该系统是从主要来自北美人的耻骨样本开发而来，尚不清楚它在其他大陆人群中的表现如何。在过去十年中，对欧洲和亚洲当地人群耻骨样本的SB系统研究表明，年龄与耻骨发育之间的关系存在区域差异。然而，这些研究大多遵循不同的研究方案，这使得它们的结果之间的比较意义不大。如果未来对SB系统进行严格且统一的区域分析，并遵循标准程序，那将是最有用的。本文概述了抽样和统计方面的考虑因素，希望有助于规范对SB系统的研究。
