“Idade” is the Portuguese word for “age.” The IDADE2 web page is a free web server that uses observations of known-age human skeletal remains from a skeletal reference collection to estimate age in other skeletal individuals. This web server is based on the same probabilistic (Bayesian) model used in the original IDADE2 program (written by George F. Estabrook on 18 May, 2004, in collaboration with Carme Rissech).
For this web page, the original IDADE2 program was re-written in the open-source software R at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) in Mallorca, Spain. It is the result of a collaboration between the
Group of Bioinformatics and Computational biology (BIOCOM) and the
Faculty of Medicine (FM) of this university,
represented by Jairo Rocha and Jaume Sastre (BIOCOM) and Carme Rissech (FM). In addition,
Marta San-Millán from EUSES University School of Health and Sports, University of Girona, Girona (Spain), Allysha Powanda Winburn from the
University of West Florida in Pensacola, FL (U.S.), Vanessa Muñoz-Silva from the Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá (Colombia) and Cesar Sanabria-Medina from the Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá (Colombia) have also contributed their ideas and/or acetabular data.
This new version of IDADE2, the IDADE2 web page, allows users to select between 2 options:
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Option 1 - estimates the age of your individuals based on our reference data from the acetabulum.
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Option 2 - estimates the age of your individuals based on your own reference data (using acetabular scores or any other set of consistently scored age variables).
