-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: formatting data [in Morphologika -the mod] Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:03:15 -0800 (PST) From: Steven Wang <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Hi Alex, Here is an example of what I use for headers in ml, along with some explanations. [individuals] 96 [landmarks] 14 [dimensions] 3 [groups] alph 50 aust 46 -- I use a four-letter abbreviation for every populations m 40 f 50 u 6 -- I use m=male, f=female, u=unknown H.e 2 H.n 2 H.s 8 H.s.s 530 -- abbreviation for genus and species, in this case, for various human lineages, e.g., H.s = Homo sapiens NAmerica 50 Australia 46 -- regions and the number of specimens from that region [labels] population sex species region [labelvalues] alph m H.s.s Namerica alph f H.s.s NAmerica alph f H.s.s NAmerica alph m H.s.s Namerica aust m H.s.s Australia etc... [names] alph001m -- instead of using museum catalogue number, which can vary a lot among institutions, I simply convert it to a number, three digits in the case because I will never collect more than 100 specimens/population alph002f alph003f aust001m etc... [rawpoints] 'alph001m -12.07 -60.2385 -17.694 etc... You could have as many classfiers for your data as you like. It all depends on how you plan to partition the data during the analysis. I found that it's so much easier to create wireframe in MorphoJ--you have the option of simply dragging a line between desired landmarks. Additionally, it provides three standard orientions (frontal view, lateral view, and superior view), which is adequate for most of my analyses. Have fun! Steve -----Original Message----- From: morphmet [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:34 AM To: morphmet Subject: Re: formatting data [in Morphologika -the mod] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: formatting data [in Morphologika -the mod] Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:35:50 -0800 (PST) From: andrea cardini <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Alex, you can use any name you like. Probably better if it's a single word (like specimen_1, specimen_2 etc. or just 1 2 etc.). Also unknown is fine for sex. Cheers Andrea At 08:05 26/02/2009 -0500, you wrote:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: formatting data Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:59:09 -0800 (PST) From: Alexander J. Nevgloski Jr <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hello, I am trying to format my data so that I can run an analysis. In the 'how to' section of Morphologika the names of the specimens are 'specimen 1, specimen 2, specimen 3, ... ' My question is can I use some other kind of name, as in the museum number, or some other designator? And what do I do with specimens where sex is unknown? If I have 'male, female, male, female, unknown, male, female...' in my list for sex labelvalues will this cause confusion in the program? Thank you, Alex [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
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