[MORPHMET] New rellease of MorphoJ

2019-02-27 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians I have just uploaded the new version 1.07a of MorphoJ to the web site. As usual, the program can be downloaded from the MorphoJ web page: http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_page.htm This update is a switch to Oracle Java, version 8. This is not a substantial change for

[MORPHMET] Reminder: on-line morphometrics course from Manchester

2018-09-24 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians I would like to remind you of this year's morphometrics course from the University of Manchester. This year's course will run in the six weeks from 5 November to 14 December 2018. Course content: * Data acquisition: the kinds of data and the equipment used to collect

Re: [MORPHMET] Extract Classifier from ID string

2018-03-22 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear Nelly I presume you imported the data from a TPS file. From the MorphoJ documentation: "It is often the case that the entry for the IMAGE= keyword in TPS files contains more useful information for making the identifier than that of the ID= keyword. To use the IMAGE= keyword, it is

[MORPHMET] A couple of new papers

2017-12-18 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians Here are two papers that have recently appeared and may be of interest to you. One is an analysis of the evolution of ontogenetic allometries in flower parts. This is an application of allometric spaces, an idea so far mostly used in traditional morphometrics, but now

Re: [MORPHMET] MorphoJ; Pooled within-group regression and group-centered scores

2017-12-18 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Hello Apologies for the delay in replying to your question. Yes, you are still testing the covariation of the dependent variable(s) with the independent variable(s). For the pooled within-group regression, this test uses the within-group variation. That means that differences in the group

Re: [MORPHMET] Re: symmetrical matrix and matrix of asymmetry

2017-11-11 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear Sergey The covariance matrices are characterizing the *variation* in your sample. The one for the symmetric component of variation is about the variation in the averages of the original landmark configurations and their reflected and relabelled copies. This is what we normally think of

[MORPHMET] Registration reopened for online morphometrics course from Manchester

2017-10-24 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians Due to a technical problem that may have prevented some of you from signing up, the registration for this year's morphometrics course from the University of Manchester has been reopened until 3 November. The course will run in the six weeks from 6 November to 15

[MORPHMET] On-line morphometrics course from Manchester

2017-06-20 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians I am pleased to announce this year's morphometrics course from the University of Manchester. This year's course will run in the six weeks from 6 November to 15 December 2017. Course content: * Data acquisition: the kinds of data and the equipment used to collect them.

Re: [MORPHMET] PC Scores From Other PCA in MorphoJ

2016-12-12 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear Andrea For the "PC Scores From Other PCA" procedure, you need a dataset (which contains the items for which you want to compute the scores) and a PCA. The dialog box has two drop-down menus, one for selecting the dataset and the other for selecting the PCA. When you select a dataset,

[MORPHMET] Reminder: on-line morphometrics course

2016-10-12 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians This is a reminder that the deadline to register for this year's morphometrics course from the University of Manchester is 21 October. So there is just over a week left! This year's course will run via the web in the six weeks from 7 November to 16 December 2016.

Re: [MORPHMET] Procrustes ANOVA in MorphoJ

2016-10-08 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear Alison The residual (sums of squares, mean squares etc.) gives you the statistics for the second error effect. I hope this helps. Best wishes Chris -- * Christian Peter Klingenberg Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester Michael Smith

Re: [MORPHMET] Terminology: Morphometry or Morphometrics?

2016-09-08 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear Emma They are synonyms, with the same meaning. Incidentally, that is the same as for "biometry" and "biometrics". I think "morphometry" may be the older of the two (the Oxford English Dictiionary has a first occurrence in 1857, although it is not clear whether the meaning is the same,

[MORPHMET] On-line morphometrics course from Manchester

2016-06-07 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians I am pleased to announce this year's morphometrics course from the University of Manchester. This year's course will run in the six weeks from 7 November to 16 December 2016. Course content: * Data acquisition: the kinds of data and the equipment used to collect them.

[MORPHMET] Publications

2016-04-03 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians A series of morphometrics papers just has appeared online in the journal Development Genes and Evolution. So far, this has been a journal of evolutionary developmental biology where morphometric analyses were published only rarely, but there will be a forthcoming special

[MORPHMET] On-line morphometrics course -- reminder of the upcoming deadline

2015-10-12 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians I would like to remind you that the deadline for registration for this year's online course in morphometrics is coming up soon: the *23 October 2015*. Rgistration is via the university's e-store, which can process automatic *payments by credit card or debit card*. If

[MORPHMET] On-line morphometrics course -- change of registration procedure and deadline

2015-07-24 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians After some discussion with our administrators, we decided to change the registration procedure for this year's online course on morphometrics. The new procedure is simpler, because there is only a single step for registration and payment. This also enables us to have a

[MORPHMET] On-line morphometrics course from Manchester

2015-06-29 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians I am pleased to announce this year's morphometrics course from the University of Manchester. This year's course will run in the six weeks from 2 November to 11 December 2015. The course information can be found on the following we site:

[MORPHMET] Review paper on geometric morphometrics and fluctuating asymmetry

2015-06-06 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear colleagues A few days ago, a new review paper on studying fluctuating asymmetry with the methods of geometric morphometrics has appeared. It is not in a journal that is a standard outlet for morphometrics papers, so it may be useful to announce it here. Klingenberg, C. P. 2015.

[MORPHMET] MorphoJ update

2014-11-23 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear colleagues I have just uploaded the new version 1.06d of MorphoJ to the web page: http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_page.htm This release contains a bug fix concerning the reading of Nexus files (File Import Phylogeny File). If the file contains numbers for internal nodes, the previous

[MORPHMET] On-line morphometrics course: deadline extended

2014-10-08 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians We have been able to extend the deadline for pre-registration for this year's online course to 15 October -- a week from now. (Thanks to Anne and Lisa for the extra flexibility.) This year's course will run in the six weeks from 3 November to 12 December 2014. The

[MORPHMET] MorphoJ update

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Klingenberg
Dear morphometricians I have recently uploaded the new version 1.06c of MorphoJ to the web page: http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_page.htm This release contains an addition to the procedure for principal component analysis. The output now contains some integration statistics in addition