Vienna, April 22, 2015 Dear MorphMetters,
As some of you may know already, for years I've been working on a methodology that replaces the Procrustes method with an alternative where, intuively speaking, the closer together two landmarks lie, the more their shifts of position with respect to the rest are correlated (which of course is the actual situation in just about every organismal data set we ever encounter). If you happened to be in St. Louis last month for the AAPA national conference you might have seen my poster on the new method, but a topic this mathematical isn't really suited to a poster format. Today, at last, my first fundamental article on this stuff has been published online by the Springer journal "Evolutionary Biology." This is an open-access article, which means you can just go grab your own copy of the 32 double-column pages and 22 diagrams without having to involve your university library. Just point your browser to link.springer.com/journal/11692 and click on the button reading "View Open Access Articles." As of this morning, anyway, my piece "Integration, Disintegration, and Self-Similarity" is the first item that comes up on offer. The title is what it is because there is an immediate application to integration studies in GMM whereby the Procrustes model must be replaced by something different as the null model for such studies. With best wishes, Fred Bookstein -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
