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Hand length

human.hand.length

status: draft confidence: high reviewer: none (unreviewed)

Citations

ansur_ii_2012iso_7250_1forensic_segment_stature

Related variables

human.staturehuman.biological_sex

Record fields

id
human.hand.length
name
Hand length
definition
Distance from the wrist crease (stylion) to the tip of the middle finger, hand flat.
domain
human
system
whole_body
region
hand
type
continuous
entity
UBERON:0002398
quality
PATO:0000122
relation
RO:0000053
unit
mm
iso_ref
ISO 7250-1:2017 (hand length; cross-walk)
allowed_range
min
120
max
260
distributions
  • model
    normal
    population
    id
    ansur_ii_2012
    name
    US Army (ANSUR II 2012)
    sampling
    military_screened
    sex
    M
    n
    4082
    years
    2012
    source
    ansur_ii_2012
    params
    mean
    193.3
    sd
    9.9
    unit
    mm
    conditioned_on
    • human.biological_sex
    • human.age
  • model
    normal
    population
    id
    ansur_ii_2012
    name
    US Army (ANSUR II 2012)
    sampling
    military_screened
    sex
    F
    n
    1986
    years
    2012
    source
    ansur_ii_2012
    params
    mean
    181.1
    sd
    10.1
    unit
    mm
    conditioned_on
    • human.biological_sex
    • human.age
dependencies
incoming
  • human.stature
  • human.biological_sex
outgoing
(none)
evidence
definition_sources
  • ansur_ii_2012
  • iso_7250_1
relationship_sources
  • forensic_segment_stature
confidence
high
status
draft
version
0.1.0
reviewer
notes
ANSUR handlength; ~11% of stature.