@article {Lynch:2018:0022-1198:793, title = "An Analysis on the Choice of Alpha Level in the Osteometric Pairmatching of the Os Coxa, Scapula, and Clavicle", journal = "Journal of Forensic Sciences", parent_itemid = "infobike://bsc/jfo", publishercode ="bp", year = "2018", volume = "63", number = "3", publication date ="2018-05-01T00:00:00", pages = "793-797", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "0022-1198", eissn = "1556-4029", url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/jfo/2018/00000063/00000003/art00019", doi = "doi:10.1111/1556-4029.13599", keyword = "commingling, osteometric sorting, alpha levels, specificity, forensic science, pair‐matching, sensitivity", author = "Lynch, Jeffrey James", abstract = "This study compares the use of 0.05 and 0.10 alpha levels with the updated osteometric pairmatching model on two samples of the os coxa, scapula, and clavicle. The samples include the Forensic Data Bank, and the osteometric sorting reference used within the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Mixedeffects twoway analyses of variance were used to analyze bilateral asymmetry in the standard measurements. In total, 3,793,566 ttests were conducted for osteometric pairmatching analysis. The results indicate high levels of exclusion power, and accuracy can be obtained with the os coxa and scapula. The clavicle standard measurements capture too much asymmetry causing a lower exclusion to accuracy ratio for osteometric pairmatching relative to other elements. Both 0.05 and 0.10 alpha levels provide acceptable levels of performance. A lower alpha level will result in higher accuracy with less exclusion, and a higher alpha level will result in lower accuracy with more exclusions.", }