Comparing Machine Learning Classifiers and Linear/Logistic Regression to Explore the Relationship between Hand Dimensions and Demographic Characteristics
Understanding the relationship between physiological measurements from human subjects and their demographic data is important within both the biometric and forensic domains. In this paper we explore the relationship between measurements of the human hand and a range of demographic features. We asses...
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| Vydáno v: | PloS one Ročník 11; číslo 11; s. e0165521 |
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| Hlavní autoři: | , , , , |
| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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United States
Public Library of Science
02.11.2016
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| ISSN: | 1932-6203, 1932-6203 |
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| Shrnutí: | Understanding the relationship between physiological measurements from human subjects and their demographic data is important within both the biometric and forensic domains. In this paper we explore the relationship between measurements of the human hand and a range of demographic features. We assess the ability of linear regression and machine learning classifiers to predict demographics from hand features, thereby providing evidence on both the strength of relationship and the key features underpinning this relationship. Our results show that we are able to predict sex, height, weight and foot size accurately within various data-range bin sizes, with machine learning classification algorithms out-performing linear regression in most situations. In addition, we identify the features used to provide these relationships applicable across multiple applications. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 ObjectType-Article-2 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Data curation: OM RG SS GN SB. Formal analysis: OM RG SS GN SB. Funding acquisition: RG SS SB. Investigation: OM RG SS GN SB. Methodology: OM RG SS GN SB. Project administration: OM RG SS GN SB. Resources: OM RG SS GN SB. Software: OM RG SS GN SB. Supervision: OM RG SS GN SB. Validation: OM RG SS GN SB. Visualization: OM RG SS GN SB. Writing – original draft: OM RG SS GN SB. Writing – review & editing: OM RG SS GN SB. |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0165521 |