Title | Multivariate Statistical Methods in Physical Anthropology [electronic resource] : A Review of Recent Advances and Current Developments / edited by G. N. Van Vark, W. W. Howells |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1984 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6357-3 |
Descript | X, 434 p. online resource |
Interpretation of Metrical Variables in Multivariate Analysis -- Some Recent Advances in Multivariate Analysis Applied to Anthropometry -- Incomplete Samples from Multivariate Normal Distributions with the Same, Known Covariance Matrix -- Use of Diversity and Distance Measures in the Analysis of Qualitative Data -- Multivariate Distances and Multivariate Classification Systems Using Non-Metric Traits in Biological Studies -- Generalized Distance in Familial Studies of Anthropometrical Characters -- Generalized Distance between Different Thigh-bones and a Reference Population -- The Use of Multivariate Distances for Non-Classificatory Purposes in Anthropobiology -- Interval Estimates for Posterior Probabilities, Applications to Border Cave -- Cluster Analysis, History, Theory and Applications -- Some Aspects of Allocation and Discrimination -- Interpretation and Testing in Multivariate Statistical Approaches to Physical Anthropology: the Example of Sexual Dimorphism in the Primates -- A Report on the Heritability of Some Cranial Measurements and Non-Metric Traits -- Improving the Sensitivity, Specificity, and Appositeness of Morphometric Analyses -- Towards an Understanding of Data in Physical Anthropology -- Data Banks and Multivariate Statistics in Physical Anthropology -- Biological Evolution and History in 19th Century Portugal -- On the Determination of Hominid Affinities -- Multivariate Analysis and Cranial Diversity in Plio-Pleistocene Hominids -- From Multivariate Statistics to Natural Selection: A Reanalysis of Plio/Pleistocene Hominid Dental Material