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The methods presented here combine conventional multivariate statistical analysis with themes from plane and solid geometry and from biomathematics to support biological insights into the features of many different organs and organisms.
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1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Landmarks; 4. Distance measures; 5. Shape coordinates; 6. Principal axes of shape change for triangles; 7. Features of shape comparison; 8. Retrospect and prospect.
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By: Fred L Bookstein
435 pages, 3 b/w photos, 193 figs, 13 tabs
'... will certainly be a landmark volume in this difficult but important field of shape analysis.' K. V. Mardia, ISI Short Book Reviews