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     Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:24:56 -0400
      From: Dean Adams <[email protected]>
      Reply-To: Dean Adams <[email protected]>
      Subject: Re: Geomorph error
      To: [email protected]

Murat,

A perfectly symmetrical reference shape could cause this problem. With 
perfect symmetry, the positions of landmarks on one side of the mid-line 
describe the positions of their corresponding landmarks on the other 
side. The resulting L-matrix for that reference contains redundancies, 
which means it will be singular, and cannot be inverted with standard 
approaches. 

Dean

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Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
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www.public.iastate.edu/~dcadams/
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On 3/15/2013 1:29 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Murat Maga <[email protected]> -----
>
>       Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:00:15 -0400
>        From: Murat Maga <[email protected]>
>        Reply-To: Murat Maga <[email protected]>
>        Subject: Geomorph error
>        To: [email protected]
>
> Hi,
>
> I am getting:
>
> plotRefToTarget(AA,AB)
> Error in solve.default(L) :
> system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 1.11926e-16
>
> error when I try to use "TPS" method. These two shapes are in 3D. They are 
> pretty similar to each other, but of course not identical. Other methods 
> "vector" and "point" work fine for the same two. 
>
> Murat
>
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>

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