An Invariant Approach to Statistical Analysis of Shapes
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC; Chapman and Hall/CRC
Published: January 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780849303197
Subjects: Applied mathematics; Geometry; Probability & statistics; Probability & Statistics - General; Biostatistics; Mathematical Statistics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Statistical methods; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Mathematics / Statistics; Mathematics; Morphology
First sentence: Natural scientists have long perceived and classified organisms primarily on the basis of their appearance and structure, otherwise known as their form.
Description: "An Invariant Approach to Statistical Analysis of Shapes provides the foundations for the quantitative analysis of form based on the invariance principle and using landmark coordinate data. The first part of each chapter presents intuitive explanations with uncomplicated arguments of the underlying statistical and mathematical ideas of invariance, nuisance parameters and identifiability, and analyses of real biological data sets.

The second part of each chapter provides a fully rigorous mathematical treatment of the underlying statistical theory."--BOOK JACKET.