The Statistical Theory of Shape concerns information that remains invariant under translations, rotations, and scale changes to data. Two objects have the same shape if they are similar in the sense of Eucidean geometry - as, for example, two cubes. Because bodies rarely have exactly the same shape, the study of such shape variations is an interesting subject, and the topic of this book.
There are different schools of shape analysis, and the focus in this monograph is on the theory as developed by David Kendall, F. L. Bookstein, and their co-workers. Some in the statistical ...
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