[Mathematic-statistical discrimination between suicide and accident in falls from height (author's transl)].

On the basis of 185 deaths caused by falls from height we examined the probability to differentiate between suicide and accident. Variables about the person, about the course and the background of the action as well as about the injury-pattern were taken into consideration. Contingency table analysis, chilsqare tests and probportional reduction in error measure were used first to determine the significant differences in criminal classification: sex, job, domicile, hour of the day, locality and height of the fall and the injuries established by postmortem examination. To test the discriminative power of the identified characteristics discriminant function analysis was used. Utilizing only 11 characteristics 88,6 percent of the deaths could be classified correctly.