An application of the relative warps analysis to problems in human paleontology-with notes on raw data quality

Image Analysis and Stereology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-72

  Frieß, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial shape; Deficient landmarks; Geometric morphometrics; Paleoanthropology; Photographic distortion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548278961     PISSN: 15803139     EISSN: 18545165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5566/ias.v22.p63-72     Document Type: Article

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