Attallah N L, Marshall W A
Med Sci Law. 1989 Apr;29(2):147-55. doi: 10.1177/002580248902900210.
Data obtained from measuring different body segments (stature, sitting height, upper limb, upper arm, forearm, leg, hand and foot length), were used to construct equations for estimating the chronological age of children with unknown date of birth. About 18,510 sets of measurements were taken on boys and 11,568 sets on girls. All were healthy British children aged 4-19 years and participating in three longitudinal studies at the Department of Growth and Development, Institute of Child Health, University of London. Both anthropometric and photogrammetric techniques of measurement were used to construct 35 anthropometric and 49 photogrammetric equations using the multiple linear regression model. These equations give the most likely estimated value for age together with its error. The accuracy of the equations and its applicability both on live children and on postmortem material is discussed.
从测量不同身体部位（身高、坐高、上肢、上臂、前臂、腿、手和脚的长度）获得的数据，被用于构建估算出生日期未知儿童实足年龄的方程。对男孩进行了约18510组测量，对女孩进行了11568组测量。所有儿童均为健康的英国儿童，年龄在4至19岁之间，参与了伦敦大学儿童健康研究所生长与发育系的三项纵向研究。使用人体测量和摄影测量技术，通过多元线性回归模型构建了35个人体测量方程和49个摄影测量方程。这些方程给出了年龄的最可能估计值及其误差。讨论了这些方程的准确性及其在活体儿童和死后材料上的适用性。
