Table 6.
Evaluation of the Willems et al,’s method [14] to estimate age in subadults. When two values are given, they correspond to the metrics obtained in males/females
| Evaluation work | Population | n | Age | E (DA-CA) | AE (|DA-CA|) | SE | R2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| μ | σ | med. | μ | σ | med. | ||||||
| Kumaresan et al. [82] | Malaysian | 426 | 5–15 | + 0.54 | 1.28 | – | 0.99 | – | – | – | – |
| Gelbrich et al. [89] | German | 500 | 6–16 | + 0.38 | – | – | 0.88 | – | – | – | – |
| Hegde et al. [92] | Indian | 1200 | 5–15 | + 0.09/ + 0.08 | 0.80/0.80 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Duangto et al. [101] | Thai | 1134 | 5–15 | − 0.37/− 0.39 | – | – | – | – | – | 0.91/0.93 | – |
| Saade et al. [106] | Lebanese | 260 | 8–17 | + 0.18/ + 0.08 | 1.24/1.12 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sobieska et al. [111] | Polish | 1002 | 4–17 | − 0.38 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Agrawal et al. [109] | Nepali | 150 | 8–19 | − 0.80/− 1.23 | 1.13/1.45 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Kelmendi et al. [107] | Kosovar | 1022 | 5–14 | − 0.14/− 0.24 | 0.77/0.75 | – | 0.61/0.64 | 0.49/0.46 | – | – | – |
| Almotairy et al. [108] | Sweedish | 107 | 9–11 | + 0.46 | 0.83 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Nemsi et al. [112] | Tunisian | 500 | 5–15 | − 0.54 | 3.14 | – | 1.05 | 3.01 | – | – | – |
| Ranasinghe et al. [121] | Sri Lankan | 688 | 8–17 | − 0.38 | 0.84 | – | 0.69 | 0.61 | – | – | – |
| Shen et al. [126] | Taiwanese | 799 | 8–16 | − 0.22/ + 0.12 | 0.80/0.92 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Pinchi et al. [128] | Italian | 752 | 3–16 | − 0.25 | 1.02 | – | – | – | 0.76 | – | – |
| Galibourg et al. [130] | French | 3605 | 2–24 | + 0.22 | 0.08 | – | 0.93 | 0.04 | – | – | 0.87 |
| Rodríguez et al. [132] | Mexican | 182 | 6–15 | + 0.05/ + 0.00 | – | – | 0.66/0.99 | – | – | – | – |
| Shi et al. [134] | Tibetan | 1951 | 4–15 | − 0.84/− 1.00 | 1.03/1.04 | – | 1.06/1.16 | – | – | – | – |
| Lauc et al. [135] | Bosnian | 776 | 7–15 | + 0.57/ + 0.48 | 1.06/1.12 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Marinkovic et al. [136] | Serbian | 423 | 5–15 | + 0.63/ + 0.58 | 0.95/0.94 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Willems et al. [137] | South African | 986 | 4–15 | − 0.06 | 0.86 | + 0.00 | 0.69 | 0.52 | 0.57 | – | – |
| Metsäniitty et al. [138] | Somali | 808 | 4–18 | − 0.09 | 1.01 | – | 0.78 | 0.65 | – | – | – |
| Kurniawan et al. [139] | Indonesian | 110 | 6–14 | + 0.15 | 0.92 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Ortega–Pertuz and Piña D’Abreu [140] | Venezuelan | 458 | 6–18 | + 0.71 | 1.23 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Paz–Cortés et al. [77] | Spanish | 604 | 4–13 | + 0.26 | 0.91 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Pan et al. [141] | Chinese | 2367 | 5–16 | − 0.07/− 0.24 | 0.92/1.03 | – | 0.70/0.79 | – | – | – | – |
| Çarıkçıoğlu and Değirmenci [142] | Turkish | 1024 | 6–16 | + 0.23 | 0.80 | – | 0.66 | 0.51 | – | – | – |
| Rocha et al. [143] | Brazilian | 1000 | 6–16 | + 0.18/− 0.01 | – | – | 0.78/0.79 | – | – | – | – |
| Yassin et al. [144] | Saudi | 1206 | 4–14 | − 0.39 | 1.48 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cadenas et al. [145] | Kenyan | 1083 | 3–24 | + 0.00 | 1.30 | + 0.00 | 0.97 | 0.86 | 0.76 | – | – |