Statistical analysis of shape through triangulation of landmarks: A study of sexual dimorphism in hominids

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4121-4125

  Rao, Calyampudi R ^a   Suryawanshi, Shailaja ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Compositional data; Hotelling's T2 test; Mahalanobis distance; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FACE; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKULL;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; HOMINIDAE; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0032516026     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.8.4121     Document Type: Article

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