Lyle W Konigsberg

About

Lyle W Konigsberg is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on biological anthropology, with particular emphasis on forensic anthropology, population analysis, and the application of multivariate analysis to biological data. He has contributed to the understanding of typicality calculations in forensic contexts and has developed tools such as the TestDimorph R package for analyzing interpopulation sexual dimorphism. Konigsberg's work also includes demographic studies, including paleodemography, and he has authored numerous publications in reputable journals. His academic profile includes a CV, publications, and research profiles on various platforms, and he is affiliated with multiple campus and external research initiatives.

Research topics

• Mathematics
• Biology
• Statistics
• Computer Science
• Ecology
• Demography
• Zoology
• Geometry
• Medicine
• Anatomy

Selected publications

• Inferring Age at Death for Japanese and Thai Skeletal Samples under a Bayesian Framework of Analysis: A Test of Priors and Their Effects on Estimation

  Forensic Anthropology · 2019-07-30 · 17 citations

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  A critical step in age-at-death estimation is to identify the age-at-death distribution to which the unknown skeletal remains most likely belong. Age estimation based on a frequentist approach assumes that the age distribution of the target population is same as that of the reference sample. In a Bayesian framework, researchers have greater flexibility, with the freedom to specify mortality information via a prior distribution and integrate it with osteological data to produce more accurate age…

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• Multivariate ordinal probit analysis in the skeletal assessment of sex

  American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 2019-03-29 · 14 citations

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• Scaling of linear anthropometric dimensions in living humans

  American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 2021 · 5 citations

  OBJECTIVES: Some previous studies suggest that humans do not conform to geometric similarity (isometry) in anthropometric dimensions of the upper and lower limbs. Researchers often rely on a single statistical approach to the study of scaling patterns, and it is unclear whether these methods produce similar results and are equally robust. This study used one bivariate and one multivariate method to examine how linear anthropometric dimensions scale in a sample of adult humans. MATERIALS AND METH…

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• The Use of Roche, Wainer, and Thissen's Skeletal Maturity of the Knee

  Journal of Forensic Sciences · 2019-05-22 · 5 citations

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  The Roche, Wainer, and Thissen (RWT) knee method was designed to assess maturity in living individuals, but is infrequently cited in studies of skeletal measures for legal age thresholds or estimation of age-at-death for forensic cases. We implement the RWT method using R scripts and analyze its utility in establishing an age threshold of 18 years. We fit the RWT model and verify its accuracy in estimating skeletal age against results and known age data provided by RWT. We also found the transit…

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• Allometric scaling and growth: Evaluation and applications in subadult body mass estimation

  American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 2021 · 2 citations

  OBJECTIVES: Previously developed methods in subadult body mass estimation have not been tested in populations other than European-American or African-American. This study uses a contemporary Taiwanese sample to test these methods. Through evaluating their accuracy and bias, we addressed whether the allometric relationships between body mass and skeletal traits commonly used in subadult body mass estimation are conserved among different populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Computed tomography scan…

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Recent grants

• Doctoral Dissertation Research: Multivariate Asymmetry and Allometry in Skeletal Elements for Osteometric Sorting

  NSF · $7k · 2018–2019

Frequent coauthors

• Peter T. Ellison

  Case Western Reserve University

  66 shared

• Daniel J. Wescott

  Texas State University

  62 shared

• Trudy R. Turner

  John Wiley & Sons (United States)

  56 shared

• Thomas Manbeck

  Hudson Institute

  46 shared

• Leslie C. Aiello

  The University of Tokyo

  46 shared

• Anne L. Grauer

  Loyola University Chicago

  46 shared

• J. Josh Snodgrass

  University of Oregon

  46 shared

• Joe Tomaszewski

  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

  46 shared

Education

• PhD, Anthropology

  Northwestern University

  1987

• B.A., Anthropology and Biology

  Indiana University Bloomington

  1980

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