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Subject: Re: Comparing and individual to a group
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:20:24 -0500
From: Joseph Kunkel <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Megan,
Perhaps you want to ask, is the individual in a group. Or you might be
asking is it more likely that this individual is in one group or
another. The later situation might use discriminant function analysis.
One protocol might be:
1) Two groups of landmark data for two separate taxonomic units or
populations.
2) Establish discriminant functions for the two groups.
3) Apply the discriminant functions to an unknown and get back two
discriminant scores that suggest to which group the unknown is closer.
What is your objective in comparison?
Joe
On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:57 AM, morphmet wrote:
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Subject: Comparing and individual to a group
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:56:02 -0500
From: Megan Dufton <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Dear morphometric users,
I am very new to morphometrics and am looking for some advice. I am
attempting to compare an individual to a group statistically. I want
to determine if an individual is different from the group. I have
tried to do this by using morphologika, but I?m having a hard time
with the program returning errors so I have not made it far with that
program (I?m using windows 7). Does anyone know of a different/
better way I can do this analysis?
Thanks so much for any advice!
Megan
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