Stature Estimation from the Anthropometric Measurements of Footprint in Iban Ethnics of East Malaysia by Regression Analysis

Hairunnisa Mak,Nataraja Moorthy T

doi:10.15744/2348-9804.1.501

Hairunnisa Mak, Nataraja Moorthy T

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https://doi.org/10.15744/2348-9804.1.501

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Abstract

A person's stature is an identifying characteristic that is often used in forensic investigation. Footprint is the one of the valuable physical evidence encountered in the crime scenes and examination of barefoot impressions is important especially in developing countries like India, Malaysia where majority of the rural population like to walk barefooted because of socio-economic and climatic reasons.

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An aspect of human identification that has received scant attention from forensic anthropologists is the study of human footprints made by the feet [1]
The present study aims to estimate the stature from all toes-to-heel length measurements in a footprint so that the findings of the study will be applicable to partial and complete footprints of Ibans of east Malaysia
All the footprint length measurements in males are found to be larger than females both in left and right feet

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Introduction

An aspect of human identification that has received scant attention from forensic anthropologists is the study of human footprints made by the feet [1]. Person identification using footprint analysis is an emerging biometric technique [2]. The characteristic features can provide useful clues to establish identity whenever complete or partial footprints are recovered at the crime scenes [3]. Foot impressions are still found at crime scenes, since offenders often tend to remove their foot wears either to avoid noise or to gain better grip in climbing walls, etc., while entering or exiting [4]. Analyses of foot [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13] and footprints [1420] help in estimation of an individual’s stature because of the existence of a strong correlation between one’s stature and foot size. For stature estimation from footprint parameters, the researchers indicated that toes-to-heel footprint length in a footprint has more reliability of prediction than from any other measurements, such as breadth at ball/heel and big toe breadth/length [21,22,23,24,25]

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