Estimating Sex of Modern Greeks Based on the Foramen Magnum Region

Table 4

Discriminant function (DF) equations for the foramen magnum region.

Variables	Wilk’s lambda		Sig.	Function coefficients		Cross-validation hit ratio
FMB	0.872	20.689	0.000	Constant	−12.851	65.6%
				FMB	0.407
FML	0.877	19.955	0.000	Constant	−14.658	63.6%
				FML	0.410
FMA	0.837	26.932	0.000	Constant	−7.926	66.9%
				FM area	0.009
FMB + FML	0.836	26.980	0.000	Constant	−16.026	65.6%
				FMB	0.244
				FML	0.233
OCL	0.843	25.924	0.000	Constant	−9.670	69.5%
				OCL	0.413
OCB	0.929	11.170	0.001	Constant	−7.954	57.1%
				OCB	0.592
MID	0.881	19.124	0.000	Constant	−8.199	64.3%
				MID	0.353
OCL + OCB	0.831	27.884	0.000	Constant	−10.616	67.5%
				OCL	0.350
				OCB	0.180
OCL + OCB + MID	0.698	54.052	0.000	Constant	−15.026	74.0%
				OCL	0.317
				OCB	0.108
				MID	0.265
FMA + OCL + OCB	0.753	42.693	0.000	Constant	−12.167	72.1%
				FM area	0.006
				OCL	0.176
				OCB	0.211
FMA + OCL + OCB + MID	0.681	57.681	0.000	Constant	−15.113	71.4%
				FM area	0.003
				OCL	0.244
				OCB	0.140
				MID	0.214

Based on “leave-one-out” principle. value ≤ 0.05 is accepted as statistically significant.