دانلود کتاب An invariant approach to statistical analysis of shapes

Statistics in Practice, A new series of practical books outlining the use of statistical techniques in a wide range of application areas: Human and Biological SciencesEarth and Environmental SciencesIndustry, Commerce and FinanceCovering both survey sampling and survey analysis, the authors aim to provide the reader with a unified coverage of the practical tools of basic and more advanced survey sampling and estimation. Contents include: Sampling design.The design effect statistic.Use of auxiliary information.Methods for handling missing data.Variance and covariance estimation.Design-based analysis of frequency tables.Multivariate methods for complex surveys.Fully worked examples and case studies taken from official statistics and real surveys on health and social sciences are used to illustrate the various methods. Additional case studies are presented covering a range of topics such as business surveys, socio-economic surveys and educational surveys. Selected commercially available software packages for complex surveys are discussed with demonstrations using data from the case studies. Intended primarily for those involved in the planning, implementation or analysis of descriptive or analytical surveys and opinion polls, the book will also be of interest to researchers and students in many disciplines. In addition, the book is well suited for use on courses in survey sampling "An Invariant Approach to Statistical Analysis of Shapes provides the foundations for the quantitative analysis of form based on the invariance principle and using landmark coordinate data. The first part of each chapter presents intuitive explanations with uncomplicated arguments of the underlying statistical and mathematical ideas of invariance, nuisance parameters and identifiability, and analyses of real biological data sets. The second part of each chapter provides a fully rigorous mathematical treatment of the underlying statistical theory."--BOOK JACKET.  Read more... Morphometric Data -- Statistical Models for Landmark Coordinate Data -- Statistical Methods for Comparison of Forms -- The Study of Growth -- Classification and Clustering Applications -- Further Applications of EDMA