期刊
BIOMETRIKA
卷 87, 期 2, 页码 285-300出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/87.2.285
关键词
directional asymmetry; fluctuating asymmetry; Kendall shape space; matching symmetry; object symmetry; permutation test; procrustes analysis
This paper formulates the problem of measuring bilateral symmetry of objects analytically for landmark data, and develops various new testing procedures and exploratory data analyses. The development is linked with the fundamental biological problem of measuring directional asymmetry and fluctuating asymmetry. We distinguish two types of symmetry, object symmetry and matching symmetry, and provide tests under assumptions of isotropic landmark variability as well as non-isotropy. The tests require novel statistical and geometrical analyses of the Procrustes shape manifold. For describing components of symmetry and asymmetry within samples, an extension of principal component analysis is introduced and illustrated by appropriate deformation techniques. Various real examples are used to illustrate the practical relevance of this work.
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