An Exploration of Pathologies of Multilevel Principal Components Analysis in Statistical Models of Shape

3D facial surface imaging is a useful tool in dentistry and in terms of diagnostics and treatment planning. Between-group PCA (bgPCA) is a method that has been used to analyse shapes in biological morphometrics, although various “pathologies” of bgPCA have recently been proposed. Monte Carlo (MC) si...

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Main Author: Damian J. J. Farnell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:Journal of Imaging
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/8/3/63