poundbury: An example dataset for secondary sex estimation.

poundburyR Documentation

An example dataset for secondary sex estimation.

Description

This dataset has been presented in Santos (2021), and has been extracted from the Goldman Data Set online (Auerbach, n. d.). It illustrates an example of convenient data formatting for performing sex estimation with rdss.

Usage

data("poundbury")

Format

A data frame with 48 observations on the following 9 variables.

ID

a factor

Sex

a factor with levels F M TBD

LHML

a numeric vector

LHMLD

a numeric vector

LHHD

a numeric vector

LRML

a numeric vector

LFML

a numeric vector

LTML

a numeric vector

LTMLD

a numeric vector

Source

The corresponding CSV spreadsheet is available online at: https://gitlab.com/f-santos/rdss/-/tree/master/inst

References

Auerbach, B. (n. d.) The Goldman Osteometric Data Set. http://web.utk.edu/~auerbach/GOLD.htm

Santos, F. (2021) rdss: an R package to facilitate the use of Murail et al.'s (1999) approach of sex estimation in past populations. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. doi: 10.1002/oa.2957

Examples

data(poundbury)

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