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Spitalfields: Example dataset

Source: R/data.R
spitalfields.Rd

Known age-at-death of an Early Modern crypt population. The data is also available at the website of L. Konigsberg (s. link below).

Format

A data frame with 180 rows and 7 columns:

  • Age known age-at-death

  • TO trait 'Transverse organization'

  • ST trait 'Surface texture'

  • MI trait 'Microporosity'

  • MA trait 'Macroporosity'

  • AP trait 'Apical changes'

  • Sex known sex

Source

<http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/lylek/Oxford/Buckberry.csv>

References

Buckberry JL, Chamberlain AT (2002). “Age estimation from the auricular surface of the ilium: a revised method.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 119(3), 231–239. doi:10.1002/ajpa.10130 .

See also

Other examples: sorsum_as