Invariance, identifiability, and morphometrics

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 97, Issue 459, 2002, Pages 796-806

  Lele, S R ^a   McCulloch, C E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximal invariants; Nuisance parameters; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036746461     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214502388618609     Document Type: Article

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