A Course in Morphometrics for Biologists: Geometry and Statistics for Studies of Organismal Form

by Fred L Bookstein

This book builds a much-needed bridge between biostatistics and organismal biology by linking the arithmetic of statistical studies of organismal form to the biological inferences that may follow from it. It incorporates a cascade of new explanations of regression, correlation, covariance analysis, and principal components analysis, before applying these techniques to an increasingly common data resource: the description of organismal forms by sets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107190940
• ISBN13: 9781107190948
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.3"