Procrustes

Una vez obtenidas las coordenadas cartesianas XY para todos los hitos, la informacion de la forma fue extraida mediante un Analisis de superposicion de Procustes (Rohlf y Slice 1990; Dry den y Mardia 1998), teniendo en cuenta la simetria objeto derecha-izquierda (Klingenberg et al.

The Procustes distance represents the distance between two points in Kendall's multidimensional space, and it is used to measure the similarity between the shapes (Monteiro and Reis, 1999).

It should be mentioned that this analytical approach has been successfully used to compare the factorial structures obtained in personality tests across different cultures (i.e., Vigil-Colet, Lorenzo-Seva, Codorniu-Raga, & Morales, 2005), and similar methods have also been applied in cross-cultural adaptation using other rotational procedures such as Procustes rotation (i.e., Balluerka Gorostiaga, Alonso-Arbiol, & Aramburu, 2007).

The horrors of Procustes' bed seem synonymous with people trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

En relacion con este tema puede resultar ilustrativo traer a colacion la historia de Procustes, un personaje de la mitologia griega.

In the Greek legend, the bandit robber, Procustes, used to waylay travellers and chop their legs if these did not fit into a "one-size-fit" bed.