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Advances in somatotype methodology and analysis
Author(s) -
Carter J.E. Lindsay,
Ross William D.,
Duquet William,
Aubry Stephen P.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330260509
Subject(s) - somatotypes , terminology , statistical analysis , statistics , descriptive statistics , psychology , mathematics , anthropometry , geography , linguistics , archaeology , philosophy
During the past four decades, different approaches to somatotyping have resulted in changes in methods and analyses. The shift from a static or typological to a dynamic or phenotypical viewpoint is reviewed and different methods are summarized. Somatotype terminology and new concepts and techniques of analysis are presented as are details of two‐ and three‐dimensional analyses. Descriptive and comparative statistical procedures are demonstrated through use of distances between somatotypes as a whole. Somatopoints, somatoplots, somatotype dispersion and attitudinal distances, t and F ratios between somatotype samples, correlation, intensity, and migratory distance are described. Suggestions are also made for approaches to somatotype analysis.