Abstract
Stature is one of the biological characteristics often used in Forensic Anthropology, both to help build profiles for unidentified individuals and to support putative identifications. Frequently fragmentary remnants are brought to a Forensic expert for investigation purpose. It is, therefore, necessary to have different formulae for the determination of stature using measurement of different body parts. The aim of this study was to estimate the stature from anthropometric measurement of inter-acromial length and derive a linear regression equation. A total of 300 subjects (150 males and 150 females) of SBKS Medical Institute & Research Center, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, Gujarat belonging to the age group 22 –44 years were selected for the study. The stature and inter-acromial length of each subject were measured with the help of a stadiometer, spreading caliper and self-retracting tape measure. There exists a positive correlation between the stature and the inter-acromial length in both males and females combined (p <0.001), which was highly significant. Our study also showed low degree of positive correlation in case of males & females measured separately. P- Value is highly significant (p <0.001) in all the cases.
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