Ability of geometric morphometric methods to estimate a known covariance matrix

Systematic Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 686-696

  Walker, Jeffrey A ^a,b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance structure; Partial warps; Principal components analysis; Relative warps analysis; Resistant fit; Shape; Simulation; Superimposition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0034351390     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351500750049770     Document Type: Article

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