An Invariant Approach to the Statistical Analysis of Shapes results from a long and fruitful collaboration between a mathematical statistician and a biologist. Together they have developed a methodology that addresses the importance of scientific relevance, biological variability, and invariance of the statistical and scientific inferences with respect to the arbitrary choice of the coordinate system. Morphometrics has only recently begun to consider the invariance principle and it implications for the study of biological form. With the advantage of dual perspectives, This book stands as a unique and important work that brings a decade’s worth of innovative methods, observations, and insights to an audience of both statisticians and biologists.

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