Dear Angela, Since relative warps are just the principal components of the PW space, I cannot see how they could be used in further multivariate analyses instead of the partial warps (= shape variables) themselves.
Hope this helps. With best regards, On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:14:45 +0200, angela roggero wrote > Dear morphometricians, > I hope that you could help me to solve a problem which is bothering > me. Someone tells me that relative warps can be employed instead > partial warps (and with better results) in statistical analyses, as > discriminant analysys and multivariate. I'm not confident at all to > apply relative warps in such way, and I'm oriented to reject > steadily the suggestion. Moreover, I would like to know also the > opinions of the members of the list. Thank you very much in advance > for any piece of information and suggestions you could furnish me > with. Angela Roggero -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - Mauro J. Cavalcanti - - - - - - - - - - - - + | Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia | | Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | | Quinta da Boa Vista, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRASIL | | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Homepage: http://www.maurobio.cjb.net | + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + == Replies will be sent to list. For more information see http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/morphmet.html.
