A Monte Carlo study of the inferential properties of three methods of shape comparison

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 369-377

  Coward, W Mark ^a,b   McConathy, Deirdre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SYSTAT Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate free approach; Procrustes methods; Shape analysis; Simulation; Superimposition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 0030040478     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199603)99:3<369::AID-AJPA1>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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