An invariant approach to statistical analysis of shapes

the long version

"An Invariant Approach to Statistical Analysis of Shapes provides the foundations for the quantitative analysis of form based on the invariance principle and using landmark coordinate data. The first part of each chapter presents intuitive explanations with uncomplicated arguments of the underlying statistical and mathematical ideas of invariance, nuisance parameters and identifiability, and analyses of real biological data sets. The second part of each chapter provides a fully rigorous mathematical treatment of the underlying statistical theory."--BOOK JACKET.