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    Shape Theory via QR decomposition

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    This work sets the non isotropic noncentral elliptical shape distributions via QR decomposition in the context of zonal polynomials, avoiding the invariant polynomials and the open problems for their computation. The new shape distributions are easily computable and then the inference procedure can be studied under exact densities instead under the published approximations and asymptotic densities under isotropic models. An application in Biology is studied under the classical gaussian approach and a two non gaussian models.Comment: 13 page

    Shape Theory Via SV Decomposition II

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    The non isotropic and non central elliptical shape distributions via the Le and Kendall SVD decomposition approach are derived in this paper in the context of invariant polynomials and zonal polynomials. The so termed cone and disk densities here obtained generalise some results of the literature. Finally, some particular densities are applied in a classical data of Biology, and the inference is performed after choosing the best model by using a modified BIC criterion.Comment: 16 page
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