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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:50:15 -0400 From: sebastien couette <sebastien.coue...@u-bourgogne.fr> Reply-To: sebastien couette <sebastien.coue...@u-bourgogne.fr> Subject: Re: missing landmarks To: morphmet@morphometrics.org Hello Paula, You can find some interesting things on this topic in the following papers: Brown, C.M., Arbour, J.H. & Jackson, D. a. (2012). Testing of the Effect of Missing Data Estimation and Distribution in Morphometric Multivariate Data Analyses. Systematic Biology, 61, 941–954. Couette, S. & White, J. (2010). 3D geometric morphometrics and missing data. Can extant taxa give clues for the analysis of fossil primates? Comptes Rendus Palevol, 9, 423–433. Gunz, P., Mitteroecker, P., Bookstein, F.L. & Weber, G.W. (2004). Computer-aided reconstructions of incomplete human crania. Enter the Past: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, BAR International Series 1227 pp. 92–94. Archaeopress, Oxford Gunz, P., Mitteroecker, P., Neubauer, S., Weber, G.W. & Bookstein, F.L. (2009). Principles for 464 the virtual reconstruction of hominin crania. Journal of Human Evolution, 57, 48–62. Neeser, R., Ackermann, R.R. & Gain, J. (2009). Comparing the accuracy and precision of three techniques used for estimating missing landmarks when reconstructing fossil hominin crania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 140, 1–18. Strauss, R.E. & Atanassov, M.N. (2006). Determining best complete subsets of specimens and characters for multivariate morphometric studies in the presence of large amounts of missing data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88, 309–328. Strauss, R.E., Atanassov, M.N. & Alves de Oliveira, J. (2003). Evaluation of the principal component and expectation maximization methods for estimating missing morphometric studies. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23, 284–296 Wiens, J.J. (2003a). Incomplete taxa, incomplete characters, and phylogenetic accuracy: is there a missing data problem? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23, 297–310. Wiens, J.J. (2003b). Missing data, incomplete taxa, and phylogenetic accuracy. Systematic Biology, 52, 528–538. All of these paers do no focus on landmarks but they can give tyou some good ideas. I also know that some new papers on this topic are in prep. and will be available soon. regards -- ----------------------------------------- Dr. Sébastien Couette EPHE&UMR CNRS 6282 Biogéosciences Université de Bourgogne 6 Bld Gabriel 21000 Dijon Tél.: 33. (0)3.80.39.64.48 Fax : 33. (0)3.80.39.63.87 sebastien.coue...@u-bourgogne.fr http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/BIOGEOSCIENCE/ Responsable de la spécialité "Biodiversité et Gestion de l'Environnement" du Master "Biologie Santé Ecologie" de l'EPHE Master EPHE spécialité "Biodiversité et Gestion de l'Environnement" http://biodiv-envt-ephe-prefig.com/ ----- End forwarded message -----