Methods for shape analysis of landmark data from articulated structures

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 959-970

  Adams, Dean C ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation; Burnaby's size correction; Morphometrics; Thin plate spline

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000594280     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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