SVAD Age Data: Taiwan

Description

The skeletal and dental data were collected from anonymized computed tomography images generated at the National Taiwan University Hospital. Individuals are between birth and 20 years of age. As part of the SVAD age indicator template, there are 64 age variables (columns) in the dataset, which include diaphyseal lengths and breadths, epiphyseal fusion/appearance of ossification centers, and dental development. The data collection methodology can be found in Stull and Corron (2022) and Corron et al. (2021).

Basic Key Code:

• *DL_L/R == diaphyseal lengths
• *DB_L/R == diapyseal lengths
• *EF_L/R == epiphyseal fusion
• *Oss == ossification 
• *man_ and max_ == mandibular and maxillary dental development

References

Stull, K.E. and Corron, L.K. (2022) The Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database (SVAD): An Accessible Repository of Contemporary Subadult Reference Data. Forensic. Sci. 2022, 2, 20–36.  https://doi.org/10.3390/forensicsci2010003.

Corron, LK, et al. (2021) Standardizing ordinal subadult age indicators: Testing for observer agreement and consistency across modalities. Forensic Science International 320, 110687.