[MORPHMET] RE: Testing for sexual dimorphism

2015-04-29 Thread Adams, Dean [EEOBS]
Miranda, The required inputs for gpagen do not change based on how you have organized the data or how you collected it. From your description, it seems you have incorrectly specified the input components. First, the slide= option is for one to specify a ‘sliders’ matrix, in the style used in TPS

Re: [MORPHMET] Testing for sexual dimorphism

2015-04-29 Thread Carmelo Fruciano
Dear Alex, I imagine most people would consider MAN(C)OVA and/or permutation tests for difference in multivariate means as the typical approach. Obviously, the choice of methods might also depend on the design and research question. There is a chance that with 10 observations per sex you m

[MORPHMET] RE: Testing for sexual dimorphism

2015-04-29 Thread Karban, Miranda E
Dear Morphometricians, I am attempting to upload 2D landmark and semi-landmark data into R (geomorph package), and I was wondering if anyone could give me advice. In past analyses, I have uploaded both a landmark tps file, which contains all of the landmark and semi-landmark data combined (measu

[MORPHMET] Testing for sexual dimorphism

2015-04-29 Thread Bjarnason, Alexander
Dear morphometricians, I have an interesting GMM dataset based on the cranial morphology of adult New World monkeys (platyrrhines) with a wide sampling of genera and species. I have approximately ten male and ten females for each species, and am interested in testing for size and shape dimorphis