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A primary resource for teaching modern geometric methods of shape analysis to biologists

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I: Basics of Shape Data 2. Landmarks and Semilandmarks 3. Simple Size and Shape Variables: Shape Coordinates 4. Theory of Shape 5. The Thin-plate Spline Part 2: Analyzing Shape Variables 6. Ordination Methods 7. Partial Least Squares 8. Statistics 9. General Linear Models Part 3: Applications 10. Evolutionary Developmental Biology 11. Variational Properties 12. Ecological and Evolutionary Morphology 13. Systematics 14. Forensics