Comparing the accuracy and precision of three techniques used for estimating missing landmarks when reconstructing fossil hominin crania

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-18

  Neeser, Rudolph ^a   Ackermann, Rebecca Rogers ^a   Gain, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Estimation; Hominoids; Mean substitution; Regression; Thin plate splines

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL HOMININ; FOSSIL HUMAN; GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEAN SUBSTITUTION; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKULL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TAXONOMY; THIN PLATE SPLINE;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PALEONTOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKULL;

EID: 68949103770     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21023     Document Type: Article

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