----- Forwarded message from Carmelo Fruciano <c.fruci...@unict.it> -----
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 02:14:38 -0400
From: Carmelo Fruciano <c.fruci...@unict.it>
Reply-To: Carmelo Fruciano <c.fruci...@unict.it>
Subject: Re: Can´t understand the process
To: morphmet@morphometrics.org
morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org ha scritto:
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> ----- Forwarded message from Edgar Esteban Herrera Collazos -----
>
> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:21:01 -0400
> From: Edgar Esteban Herrera Collazos
> Reply-To: Edgar Esteban Herrera Collazos
> Subject: Can´t understand the process
> To: morphmet@morphometrics.org
>
> Hi guys, I've been trying to understand the process of geometric
> morphometric analysis but I cant understand it. Can you give me a
> "pdf" with steps for doing it or something like that?
>
> I'd really appreciate it
Dear Edgar,
geometric morphometrics can be, at the beginning, a bit difficult to
grasp if you don't read something easy to understand. However,
normally it takes a bit more than a "step by step" pdf to grasp some
of the concepts and understand what's going on "under the hood" in
your favourite morphometric software.
Two good introductory journal articles are:
- Adams et al 2004 (Italian Journal of Zoology - freely available at
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/review/review.html )
- Viscosi & Cardini 2011 (Plos One - open access at
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0025630
)
Then you could also get the book by Zelditch et al. 2004 - Geometric
Morphometrics for Biologists: a Primer
At that point understanding the analyses presented in papers or
discussed here should be much easier and you can move from there.
Just my two cents...
Carmelo
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Carmelo Fruciano
Marie Curie Fellow - University of Konstanz - Konstanz, Germany
Honorary Fellow - University of Catania - Catania, Italy
e-mail c.fruci...@unict.it
http://www.fruciano.it/research/
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