Stature estimation from handprint measurements: an application to the medicolegal investigation

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Table 6 Comparison of coefficient of determination (R²) among different studies

Measurements	Present study						Paulis (2015)		Ahemad and Purkait (2011)	Ishak et al. (2012b)				Zulkifly et al. (2018)
	Male		Female		Combined sex		Male	Female	Male	Male		Female		Male		Female
	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Right	Combined side	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left
MHB	0.240	0.231	0.113	0.111	0.549	0.536
F1DL	0.231	0.223	0.116	0.120	0.359	0.344
SDL	0.502	0.494	0.199	0.193	0.589	0.578
TDL	0.421	0.429	0.305	0.300	0.603	0.595	0.269	0.089	0.312	0.410	0.410	0.420	0.420	0.460	0.420	0.410	0.360
F2DL	0.356	0.344	0.289	0.291	0.569	0.554
F3DL	0.311	0.303	0.293	0.268	0.551	0.531

MHB maximum handprint breadth, F1DL 1^st digit length, SDL 2^nd digit length, TDL 3^rd digit length, F2DL 4^th digit length, F3DL 5^th digit length