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The bones commonly used in sex estimation are those that exhibit greater sexual dimorphism, such as the pelvis or the femur. However, these bones are not always available, which means that it is necessary to find alternative bones for analysis. The main purposes of this study include the assessment of fibular and tibial sexual dimorphism in samples from three Portuguese reference skeletal collections, and the development of metric models for the estimation of biological sex. Methods: A sample of 290 individuals (160 females; 130 males), belonging to the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection (training sample), the Lisbon Identified Skeletal Collection (test sample), and 21st the Century Identified Skeletal Collection (training sample), was employed to develop models for sex prediction through logistic regression. Results: From the identification of the most dimorphic bone dimensions, 13 models were created with an accuracy ranging between 80.1% and 89.7% in the training sample (under cross-validation), and between 82.5% and 91.7% in the test sample Conclusions: The results of this work show that predictive models based on the fibula and tibia can be accurate and unbiased.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/forensicsci5010002","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,10]],"date-time":"2025-01-10T06:25:54Z","timestamp":1736490354000},"page":"2","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Sex Estimation from the Fibula and Tibia: A Study in Three Portuguese Reference Collections"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-8609-0308","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sandra","family":"Marques","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3000-370 Coimbra, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Catarina","family":"Pinto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3000-370 Coimbra, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Maria Teresa","family":"Ferreira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3000-370 Coimbra, Portugal"},{"name":"Centre for Functional Ecology, Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-370 Coimbra, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4190-6055","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Susana","family":"Garcia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Public Administration and Public Policies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Universidade de Lisboa, 1300-663 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"National Museum of Natural History and Science, Universidade de Lisboa, 1250-102 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0480-209X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francisco","family":"Curate","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3000-370 Coimbra, Portugal"},{"name":"Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-370 Coimbra, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"30","DOI":"10.21800\/2317-66602019000200011","article-title":"Devolvendo a Identidade: A Antropologia Forense No Brasil","volume":"71","author":"Cunha","year":"2019","journal-title":"Cienc. 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