Bookstein, Fred L., 1947-

The measurement of biological shape and shape change / Fred L. Bookstein. - Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1978. - viii, 191 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Lecture notes in biomathematics ; 24 .

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [174]-191.

Chapter I. Introduction: On the Absence of Geometry from Morphometrics
Chapter II. Shape and Measures of Shape
Chapter III Conventional Cephalometrics
Chapter IV New Statistical Methods for Shape
Chapter V. The Study of Shape Transformation after D'Arcy Thompson
Chapter VI. The Method of Biorthogonal Grids
Chapter VII. Example of Biorthogonal Analysis
Chapter VIII. Statistical Methods; Computation and Likely Application - Computed tomography - Orthodontics-Developmental Biology

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Morphology--Mathematics.
Body size--Measurement.

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