Study on racial difference by analysing the facial bones / 中国法医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the facial bones' racial character between Chinese and European Caucasian. Methods 150 adult cases Chinese adult yellow race and European Caucasian(Either is 75 cases) were collected, and 51 measurements were selected. These measurements which have steady data and distinct racial different were used to found the racial discriminant by SPSS16.0 statistical software. To estimate the reliability of the racial discriminant, 20 samples(either race has 10 samples) were taken out randomly out of the research samples for blind test. Results 7 measurements were screen out, and found 5 pairs of racial discriminant, comprising of the whole variables' discriminant, the stepwise discriminant and muti-variabes' discriminant. The accuracy rate between 73.2% and 89.8%. The results of blind test have 75% to 95% accuracy. Conclusion The racial discriminant funded throgh this suty are useful to the identify of Chinese and European Caucasian on forensic science.