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Subject: Visualise linear Measurements
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:13:32 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Dear all,
I would like to visualisize bone morphological variation along PC
scores of multiple linear measurements. Those measurements are not all
interconnected -as could be ideal for a truss- and they were
collected using traditional calliper. Based on the correlation matrix I
can always see that PC1 highly correlates with the overall bone length
but I would like to see this variation like we could do in geometric
morphometrics with TPS.
Is there anyone having experience visualising objects from measurements?
The idea will be to go from linear measurement back to raw
coordinates as long as we can find spatial correspondence (I can trace
back the "approximately" exact position of what I measured on the bone).
I double checked the literature and I find only a visualisation example
-I guess manual drawing- in DeGusta & Vrba (2003) Journal of
Archaeological Science 30: 1009-1022, Fig.4 page 1018.
Any suggestion on software or statistical methods would be really
appreciated.
Carlo Meloro
