Statistical assessment of bilateral symmetry of shapes

Biometrika

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 285-300

  Mardia, Kanti V ^a   Bookstein, Fred L ^b   Moreton, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional asymmetry; Fluctuating asymmetry; Kendall shape space; Matching symmetry; Object symmetry; Permutation test; Procrustes analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001059927     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/87.2.285     Document Type: Article

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