Mathematical protocols - Application to form, ecology and geochemistry of Ostracodes

The concepts presented in the present note are conceptually difficult. Suff ice it to say that geometric morphometrics and compositional data-analysis are scarcely known among professional statisticians. Three ideas, each of w hich is relatively new, have proven to be very important in geology and pal aeontology These are: (a) The question of the validity of multivariate stat istical analyses in geochemistry. (b) The validity of multidimensional anal yses of the shape of the crustacean carapace. (c) Geometric Morphometrics. A synthesis of methods which has greatly enhanced the quantitative descript ion of and geometry of shape of an organism in time and space.