Abstract

Introduction: Identification of sex from skeleton remains is of great medicolegal, anthropological and archaeological importance. It is acknowledging that the hip bone is by far the best non-population specific indicator for reliable sex determination. Material and Methods: 178 Adult hip bones (54 females and 124 males) of known sex were used for the present study. We calculated Index of widening of anterior border (INDEX I), Index of widening of ant. Interspinous notch (INDEX II) and Index of widening of notch between anterior inferior iliac spine and the iliopubic eminence (INDEX III). For all these indices, we measured range, mean, standard deviation, P value and demarcating points. All the observations were tabulated, analyzed statistically and compared with the previous studies. We applied “Multivariate Linear discriminant function” as proposed by Armitage. Observations and Results: We found that if these three indices used in combination can achieve the accuracy rate of 62.10% in males and 61.80% in females with overall accuracy of 61.80%. Conclusion: All the three indices in our present study are statistically significant and can be used effectively for sex determination

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