Skeletal Trait Summary

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While the case studies above are good examples of the usefulness of skeletal trait comparisons, the strength of the identifications involved are not quantified. In these cases, the identifications were not challenged at trial, however, in more recent years, more exacting standards are being placed on forensic anthropologists to quantify the strength of their identifications, much like the statistical evidence used for DNA identifications (Steadmen, et al., 2006). Radiological comparisons, as well as fingerprint and dental comparisons, involve relatively subjective assessments of the similarity of antemortem and postmortem data (Christensen, Hatch, & Brogdon, 2014). Comparison methods like this are insufficient for forming the basis for determining