This paper underlines the importance of the small sample effects consideration in
paleopathological research providing an example of children from Kyiv Rus' cemeteries …

It is not uncommon for biological anthropologists to analyze incomplete bioarcheological or
forensic skeleton specimens. As many quantitative multivariate analyses cannot handle …

Objective To gain a more holistic understanding of oral health in the past by producing an
'Index of Oro-dental Disease'(IOD), incorporating multiple oro-dental diseases and …

Missing data is a prevalent problem in bioarchaeological research and imputation could
provide a promising solution. This work simulated missingness on a control dataset (481 …

Research using historical data is becoming more common across the social sciences.
However, approaches using historical data suffer from a more acute missing data problem …

The study of fractures in bioarchaeology can provide valuable insights related to many
aspects of the lived experience, from violence to changing social roles. As the investigation …

Traditional studies exploring the interrelationships between growth and development traits
have lacked the data necessary to fully describe the multivariate growth and development …

Sex estimation is one of the primary components of the biological profile. As a result, sex is
one of the primary axes upon which bioarchaeological research turns. At present, the …

Nesse trabalho foram produzidos estudos para um método de estimação da média baseado
em mais que uma variável auxiliar, o método da razão multivariada. A abordagem utiliza-se …