The Relation Between Geometric Morphometrics and Functional Morphology, as Explored by Procrustes Interpretation of Individual Shape Measures Pertinent to Function

Anatomical Record

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 314-327

  Bookstein, Fred L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional morphology; Geometric morphometrics; Landmarks; Problems with principal components; Procrustes dual space

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMETRY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MATHEMATICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANATOMY; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYTHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84919754558     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23063     Document Type: Article

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