Testing of the effect of missing data estimation and distribution in morphometric multivariate data analyses

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 941-954

  Brown, Caleb Marshall ^a,b   Arbour, Jessica H ^a   Jackson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crocodilia; deformation; fossil; incomplete; morphology; ordination; PCA; Procrustes; shape; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CROCODILIAN; HISTOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES);

EID: 84866503832     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys047     Document Type: Article

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