Buch, Englisch, 455 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 263 mm, Gewicht: 1022 g
Geometry and Biology
Buch, Englisch, 455 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 263 mm, Gewicht: 1022 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-38385-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Morphometrics is the statistical study of biological shape and shape change. Its richest data are landmarks, points such as 'the bridge of the nose' that have biological names as well as geometric locations. This book is the first systematic survey of morphometric methods for landmark data. 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. This book will be of value to applied statisticians and geometers, as well as to all biological and biomedical researchers who need quantitative analyses of information from biomedical images.
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Weitere Infos & Material
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.
