Inference on 3D Procrustes Means: Tree Bole Growth, Rank Deficient Diffusion Tensors and Perturbation Models

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 424-446

  Huckemann, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap confidence intervals; Central limit theorem; Forest biometry; Kendall's shape spaces; Non parametric inference; Strong consistency; Tree stem ellipticality; Ziezold means

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051862101     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2010.00724.x     Document Type: Article

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