TraditionalMorphometrics.tex

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\frametitle{``Traditional'' morphometrics}
Traditional morphometrics analyzes measurements of size (lengths, widths, masses, angles, ratios and areas).

Early analysis methods were often univariate, performing statistical analysis on each feature in isolation.

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Wikipedia contributors, ``Morphometrics,'' Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, \url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morphometrics&oldid=641987541} (accessed March 26, 2015).\par
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\frametitle{Criticism of univariate approaches}
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``This unhappy result can be traced to the piecemeal tests which have hitherto been used. A bone or a tooth is a unit ; it is not a discrete assembly of independent measurements.''
\par \rightline{\tiny{\rm --- Jacob Bronowski \& W.M. Long (Nature, 1951)}}
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``The right statistical method must treat the set of variates as a single coherent matrix ; and this is, in fact, the technique of multivariate analysis.''
\par \rightline{\tiny{\rm --- Jacob Bronowski \& W.M. Long (Nature, 1951)}}
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\frametitle{Biological variability is multivariate}
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\includegraphics[height=0.6\textwidth]{faces_orig}
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