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The Measurement of Biological Shape and Shape Change

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  • © 1978

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Authors:
  1. Fred L. Bookstein

    1. Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (LNBM, volume 24)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction: On the Absence of Geometry from Morphometrics

    1. Introduction: On the Absence of Geometry from Morphometrics

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 1-3

  3. The Measurement of Biological Shape

    1. Shapes and Measures of Shape

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 4-12

    2. Critique of an Applied Field: Conventional Cephalometrics

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 13-26

    3. New Statistical Methods for Shape

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 27-63

  4. The Measurement of Shape Change Using Biorthogonal Grids

    1. The Study of Shape Transformation after D’Arcy Thompson

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 64-89

    2. The Method of Biorthogonal Grids

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 90-123

    3. Examples of Biorthogonal Analysis

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 124-153

    4. Future Directions for Transformation Analysis

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 154-171

    5. Envoi

      • Fred L. Bookstein
      Pages 172-173

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 174-194
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Fred L. Bookstein

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Measurement of Biological Shape and Shape Change

  • Authors: Fred L. Bookstein

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93093-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-08912-4Published: 01 July 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-93093-5Published: 13 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0341-633X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9981

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 191

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Biology, Mathematics, general

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