The Process by Which a Forensic Anthropologist Attempts to Distinguish

question 14

Short Answer

The process by which a forensic anthropologist attempts to distinguish between damage to bones made during life (for example, by weapons) and damage to bones caused by the environment after death is __________________________________________________________.

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Definitions:

Discrete Random Variables

Variables that take on a countable number of distinct and separate values.

Continuous Random Variables

Variables that can take an infinite number of values within a given range, for instance, weight or temperature.

Probability Distribution

A mathematical function that provides the probabilities of occurrence of various possible outcomes in an experiment.

Standard Deviation

An important measure in statistics that expresses the variability or spread of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.