Linear Discrimination, Ordination, and the Visualization of Selection Gradients in Modern Morphometrics

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 100-114

  Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Bookstein, Fred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical variate analysis; Linear discriminant function; Ordination; Principal component analysis; Procrustes; Selection gradient

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952312407     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9109-8     Document Type: Article

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