On the consistency of procrustean mean shapes

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-63

  Le, Huiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fr chet mean shapes; Procrustean mean shapes; Shape ofthe mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032022125     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800008077     Document Type: Article

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