[MORPHMET] Estimating Ontogenetic Trajectories

2015-08-23 Thread Karban, Miranda E
Hello morphometricians, I am relatively new to morphometrics, and I am attempting to assess ontogenetic trajectories from a longitudinal sample of growth study x-rays. My subjects are divided into 2 groups, and I would like to determine whether there are developmental differences in cranial

Re: [MORPHMET] Error with read.ply in geomorph

2015-08-23 Thread Emma Sherratt
Hi Claire, sorry for the delay- I'm travelling. this looks like an issue with the normals. How does it work with addNormals =F ? Emma On Friday, August 21, 2015, Claire Terhune claire.terh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Emma- I seem to be having a different problem with the read.ply function that

Re: [MORPHMET] Estimating Ontogenetic Trajectories

2015-08-23 Thread lv xiao
In the botton line of page 53 of Quick Guide to Geomorph v2.1.6 regarding trajectory.analysis (Y ~ cov + A * B), A and B are called factors, which seems to suggest that A and B are categorical variables. Continuous covariates could be included in the formula, but this is only optional. In

Re: [MORPHMET] Estimating Ontogenetic Trajectories

2015-08-23 Thread Emma Sherratt
Dear Miranda, Using procD.lm is the correct function for what you want to do. Since you have just two groups it's a simple Procrustes Anova. Your implementation should be: procD.lm(shape~ age*group) This will give you: Effect of age; where significant means the shape scales allometrically