Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781108120418
Content:
This book builds a much-needed bridge between biostatistics and organismal biology by linking the arithmetic of statistical studies of organismal form to the biological inferences that may follow from it. It incorporates a cascade of new explanations of regression, correlation, covariance analysis, and principal components analysis, before applying these techniques to an increasingly common data resource: the description of organismal forms by sets of landmark point configurations. For each data set, multiple analyses are interpreted and compared for insight into the relation between the arithmetic of the measurements and the rhetoric of the subsequent biological explanations. The text includes examples that range broadly over growth, evolution, and disease. For graduate students and researchers alike, this book offers a unique consideration of the scientific context surrounding the analysis of form in today's biosciences
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107190948
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107190948
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781108120418
URL:
Volltext
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