Kate B R, Mujumdar R D
Acta Anat (Basel). 1976;94(2):311-20. doi: 10.1159/000144563.
Estimation of stature from a single extremity bone is a common forensic practice and many regression equations are given by various workers. In India, Pearson's formula is the most commonly used method to determine the height. These regression equations were subjected to verification on 194 (97 pairs) femora and 102 (51 pairs) humeri from India. It was seen that the Pearsonian formulae did not give exact results. The regression formulae differed statistically in both sexes in femur and humerus. These are calculated and given. This finding once again proves the necessity of having norms or formulae for the specific groups, when reliable results are required. In addition, the proportion between humerus length and femur length is also verified. This has evolutionary significance. In addition to the usual method as above, a method of the proportion these bones individually bear to the stature of the same person to which the bones belong is worked out both as a multiplication factor and percentage proportion to the body stature. It has been amply demonstrated and concluded that this method be called "autometry" and further that this seems to be more reliable method than the tedious yet variable and unreliable results the various formulae give. This autometry seems to have a consistency, being constant in both sexes and all races, thus evolving a "human race autometry".
根据单块四肢骨估算身高是法医的常见做法，许多研究人员给出了多种回归方程。在印度，皮尔逊公式是确定身高最常用的方法。对来自印度的194块（97对）股骨和102块（51对）肱骨进行了这些回归方程的验证。结果发现，皮尔逊公式并未给出准确结果。股骨和肱骨的回归公式在男女两性中均存在统计学差异。已计算并给出了这些公式。这一发现再次证明，当需要可靠结果时，针对特定群体制定规范或公式的必要性。此外，还验证了肱骨长度与股骨长度之间的比例。这具有进化意义。除了上述常规方法外，还计算了这些骨骼各自与所属者身高的比例，得出了一个作为身高倍数因子和身高百分比比例的数值。充分证明并得出结论，这种方法应称为“自身测量法”，而且这种方法似乎比各种公式得出的冗长、多变且不可靠的结果更为可靠。这种自身测量法似乎具有一致性，在男女两性和所有种族中都是恒定的，从而形成了一种“人类种族自身测量法”。
