New approach to quantifying anatomical curvatures using high-resolution polynomial curve fitting (HR-PCF)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 630-638

  Deane, Andrew ^a   Kremer, E P ^a   Begun, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION POLYNOMIAL CURVE FITTING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; OSTEOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKELETON; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; HOMINIDAE; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 27744516520     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20202     Document Type: Article

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