Analysis of Organismal Form

Programme Structure

Courses include:

• data acquisition: the various kinds of data and the equipment used to collect them;
• definitions of size and shape (distance measures);
• geometric methods to measure shape from a configuration of landmark points 
• (Procrustes superimposition);
• statistics of variation, scatter plots, basic multivariate statistics;
• measurement error and outliers;
• shape transformations and 'warping' - the thin plate spline;