Hello, I just came across this service by accident, but I am pleased that I have. My name is Marc Laflamme, and I am presently undertaking a thesis in multivariate morphometrics at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. With this said, I more or less stumbled into morphometrics by accident, since my original project was purely taxonomic, but when it became obvious that my fossils were not going to be classified by simple taxonomy, I became consumed by a morphometrics project. So for the last few months, I have been struggling through the matrix and algebraic jargon in the hopes of finally understanding what my computer was doing when performing a PCA! To make a long story short, I am overwhelmed by many of the supposed "introductory" textbooks and papers which assume I have 10 years of statistical background under my belt. Please don't misunderstand me, I truly love the power associated with multivariate statistics, and the types of problems that can only be solved through morphometrics (to the point where I hope to upgrade my present project to a Phd dissertation), but I would really appreciate any comments on good morphometric papers/books/websites that i could read in order to be able to tackle the harder literature in due time.
I appreciate any comments or suggestions. Thank you, Marc Laflamme _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail == Replies will be sent to list. For more information see http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/morphmet.html.
