A statistical approach to the discrimination of the cranial form

In a study of lateral cephalographic dimensions, their multivariate statistical analysis was shown to discriminate between patients with gross cranial anomalies and controls exhibiting no abnormal morphology. Although the degree of discrimination depended upon the group of dimensions included in the analysis, discrimination was more consistent than when compared using univariate statistical techniques. As cephalographic dimensions combine both size and shape parameters together, however, the interpretation of such contrasts must await more specific analytic techniques development.