Multivariate aspects of shape theory (Q688390)

Let \({\mathbf X}: N\times K\) be a matrix presenting the geometrical figure comprising \(N\) landmark, or labeled, points in \(R^ k\). The shape of \({\mathbf X}\) is the figure with translation, orientation and scale removed. The authors placed shape theory in the setting of noncentral multivariable analysis and provided a comprehensive view of shape distributions when landmark coordinates are Gaussian distributed. The standard techniques of multivariate analysis are applied to deal with the statistical analysis of shape although there are some differences between their work and standard multivariate theory. Their work includes some new results in all dimensions to the size-and-shape distribution, and also investigates some inference problems for shape.