OBJECTIVE: Comprehensively analysis the correlation and the law of variation between the height of a person and the length of his/her footprint. METHODS: Collecting footprint samples of those people of different age and sex from different area all of our country, and adopt the regressive analysis method to study these samples. RESULTS: A sum of useful data and regressive equation were obtained. CONCLUSION The correlation between the height of a person and the length of his/her footprint is obviously, the approximate height of a person can be reckoned according to thelength of his/her footprints.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Age Factors ; Body Height ; Female ; Foot/anatomy & histology* ; Forensic Medicine/methods* ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Regression Analysis ; Sex Factors ; Shoes/classification*