AuthorBookstein, Fred L. author
TitleThe Measurement of Biological Shape and Shape Change [electronic resource] / by Fred L. Bookstein
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1978
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93093-5
Descript VIII, 191 p. online resource

CONTENT

One. Introduction: On the Absence of Geometry from Morphometrics -- First Part. The Measurement of Biological Shape -- Two. Shapes and Measures of Shape -- Three. Critique of an Applied Field: Conventional Cephalometrics -- Four. New Statistical Methods for Shape -- Second Part. The Measurement of Shape Change Using Biorthogonal Grids -- Five. The Study of Shape Transformation after DโArcy Thompson -- Six. The Method of Biorthogonal Grids -- Seven. Examples of Biorthogonal Analysis -- Eight. Future Directions for Transformation Analysis -- Nine. Envoi -- Literature Cited


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Biomathematics
  3. Mathematics
  4. Mathematical and Computational Biology
  5. Mathematics
  6. general