Dear Morphmet list,
first, thank you all for the very interesting and stimulating posts.
In my humble opinion, not being PCA a "predictive" tool, it can be
easily misused as such. Personally, I most frequently use PCA to have a
quick look at what my data looks like. In other words, to look at
Good morning
I understand this is a bit late to come to this discussion, but there are
some points I would like to add. First, there is an excellent discussion of
PCA after Procrustes superimposition in Dryden and Mardia (1998)
Statistical shape analysis, Wiley (pages 96-108). They present
Good morning all,
I would like to thank everyone so far for generously taking the time to
reply to my questions: I didn't think I would generated such an
interesting discussion! As an amateur morphometrician I am trying to keep
up and have started reading some of the literature you all have
