Is cranial multi-detector computed tomography imaging valuable for stature estimation in Egyptian population?

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Table 4 Correlation between the stature and skull measurements in pooled cases (n = 150), males (n = 80), and females (n = 70) by Pearson’s correlation coefficient

	XCB	WFB	Fmt-fmt	ZYB	OBH	OBB	PAC	BMS	GOL	BBH	BNL	BPL
Pooled cases
R	0.519	0.384	0.345	0.555	0.382	0.394	0.268	0.373	0.497	0.348	0.221	0.376
P value	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	0.006*	< 0.001*
In males
R	0.336	0.091	0.068	0.452	0.381	0.157	0.034	0.091	0.401	0.177	0.116	0.280
P value	0.002*	0.420	0.552	< 0.001*	< 0.001*	0.165	0.765	0.420	< 0.001*	0.115	0.306	0.012*
In female
R	0.395	0.120	0.190	0.387	0.154	0.362	0.405	0.173	0.308	0.114	0.093	0.158
P value	0.001*	0.321	0.115	0.001*	0.204	0.002*	0.001*	0.151	0.010*	0.347	0.442	0.191

r, correlation coefficient; weak (R = 0.20–0.39), moderate (R = 0.40–0.59), strong (R = 0.60–0.79), very strong > 0.8
XCB maximum cranial breadth, WFB minimum frontal breadth, fmt-fmt upper facial breadth, ZYB bizygomatic breadth, OBH orbital height, OBB orbital breadth, PAC parietal chord, BMS bi-mastoidale, GOL maximum cranial length, BBH basion-bregma, BNL cranial base length, BPL basion-prosthion length
*Significant difference, P value < 0.05