Data Acquisition.
Using a microscribe. Collecting CT scans & Surface Scans: Demonstration of Stratovan Checkpoint.
Brief Review of Fundamentals of Morphometrics: How to choose landmarks. Generalized Procrustes Analysis. Other types of alignment.
Processing Microscribe data: Using DVLR to merge two views. Using resample to resample a line.
Using Landmark Editor to collect data on surfaces.
Discussion and demonstration of sliding semi-landmarks. How to do a precision test on 3D data.
Data exploration: PCA analyses: Using Morphologika. Using MorphoJ.
Visualizing shape change: Using MorphoJ in conjunction with Landmark Editor. Making calculations and visualizing vector displacements in Morpheus. GPAing with missing data using Morpheus.
Data interpretations: Using mean configurations (PAST) and Procrustes distances: Minimum spanning trees, Variability within a sample (comparing fossil distributions to extant distributions).
Data exploration: PLS analyses, Phylogeny and Allometry.
Programs that we will use:
- Inscribe, Stratovan Checkpoint, DVLR, Resample, Landmark Editor, Morphologika,MorphoJ, Morpheus, PAST.