The hypothesized sexual difference in the incidence of torus mandibularis in Eskimoid groups, as well as age and group differences, was studied in two Northwest Territories Eskimo groups and in an Aleut group (examined by Moorrees). The data were analyzed using statistical methods new to the field of anthropology. The method analyzes data sampled from a multinomial distribution. A hierarchy of log linear models are fitted to the cell counts of a contingency table. An iterative proportional fitting procedure is used to obtain expected cell counts under each log linear model. The "goodness of fit" of each model is tested by the log likelihood ratio, This statistic can be partitioned into additive components such that differences between models can be tested. In this way a "best" model, from the hierarchy of models, is chosen. Among these three groups of Eskimos, the incidence of torus mandibularis was not affected by sex but was affected by age and was different between the three groups.
An International Collaborative Study was conducted in which one surface profile and two radiotracer methods for assessing abrasivity of dentifrices on human dentin were compared. The study consisted of two phases: an open phase in which participating laboratories used the method they routinely practiced; and a controlled phase in which an expert team for each method performed the abrasion tests using all three methods. Four test pastes of known abrasivity were evaluated by each method. Similar abrasivity values for the test pastes were obtained with the radiotracer methods, whereas the surface profile method produced significantly different values. The precision levels of the radiotracer methods were similar, and both were superior to those obtained by the surface profile method. The time needed to perform the tests by the ADA radiotracer method was significantly less than that needed by the other methods. These findings suggest that the ADA radiotracer method will be useful in assessing abrasivity of dentifrices.
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