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Fordisc
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FORdisc is an interactive discriminant functions program created by Stephen Ousley and Richard Jantz. It classifies unknown adult crania, and post cranial elements, based on known samples. Its primary use is in forensic identification of skeletal remains, and hence will be of greatest value to forensic anthropologists. Using FORDISC allows an investigator to construct a craniometric analysis of two to eleven groups, using one to thirty-four measurements, or a post-cranial analysis of two to four groups using one to thirty-nine measurements. Since the number of permutations for groups and measurements is very large, FORDISC will be appropriate for many forensic situations requiring classification from measurements.[1] University of Tennessee