Mardia, K. V.; Kirkbride, J.; Bookstein, F. L. - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 31 (2004) 4, pp. 465-479
In statistical shape analysis, the shape of an object is understood to be what remains after the effects of location, scale and rotation are removed. We consider the distributional problem of triangular shape and an associated direction; motivated by a data set of microscopic fossils. We begin...