Fred L. Bookstein

The Measurement of Biological Shape and Shape Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 D'Arcy Thompson.- Six. The Method of Biorthogonal Grids.- Seven. Examples of Biorthogonal Analysis.- Eight. Future Directions for Transformation Analysis.- Nine. Envoi.- Literature Cited.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Biomathematics Vol.24
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-08912-4
• 1978.
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1978
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9783540089124
• ISBN-10: 3540089128
• Artikelnr.: 27172749

Inhaltsangabe

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 D'Arcy Thompson.- Six. The Method of Biorthogonal Grids.- Seven. Examples of Biorthogonal Analysis.- Eight. Future Directions for Transformation Analysis.- Nine. Envoi.- Literature Cited.