Differences between sliding semi-landmark methods in geometric morphometrics, with an application to human craniofacial and dental variation

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 208, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 769-784

  Perez, S Ivan ^a   Bernal, Valeria ^a   Gonzalez, Paula N ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dental and facial data; Minimum bending energy; Minimum Procrustes distance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLAR TOOTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CEPHALOMETRY; DENTITION; FACIAL BONES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOLAR;

EID: 33744472832     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2006.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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