Hello all, Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is responsible for distributing the data from the CAESAR project. They will be charging a fee for it. Because the data contain more than 13,000 3-D scans the cost for the entire set is more expensive than a lot of people may want to pay, particularly small companies or universities. (Someone told me the entire set from North America costs $20,000, but I am not sure about that price.) Martha Swiss at SAE asked me if I thought it would be worthwhile to create a smaller subset of the data...say 100 subjects or so...and sell that for a more affordable amount. I thought some of you might have an opinion about that, and you might like an opportunity to influence the product. Do you think a small subset like this might be useful for morphometrics? If so, what kind of a slice through the data should they make? The data were sampled by gender, ethnicity (3 groups), and age (3 groups). There are 3 3-D scans, 73 3-D landmarks, 99 tradi! tional style measurements, and demographic data for each subect. The data were also sampled by country and include data from the US (well North America really), The Netherlands, and Italy. Would 100 subjects randomly selected from each country be useful? That would be 300 scans (3 per subject) for each country. Or would a sample that has an equal number of subjects from each ethnic group be more valuable since presumably it would represent more shape diversity? Any comments or advice would be welcome.
Thanx, Kath == Replies will be sent to list. For more information see http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/morphmet.html.
