Abhishek Bhattacharya is currently working as an assistant professor at the Indian Statistical Institute. After gaining BStat and MStat degrees from the Institute in 2002 and 2004 respectively, and a PhD from the University of Arizona in 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University until the end of 2010, before joining ISI in 2011. Before writing this book, he published several articles in areas as diverse as nonparametric frequentist and Bayesian statistics on non-Euclidean manifolds. All those articles can be accessed from his website. Rabi Bhattacharya is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Examples; 3. Location and spread on metric spaces; 4. Extrinsic analysis on manifolds; 5. Intrinsic analysis on manifolds; 6. Landmark-based shape spaces; 7. Kendall's similarity shape spaces Σkm; 8. The planar shape space Σk2; 9. Reflection similarity shape spaces RΣkm; 10. Stiefel manifolds; 11. Affine shape spaces AΣkm; 12. Real projective spaces and projective shape spaces; 13. Nonparametric Bayes inference; 14. Regression, classification and testing; i. Differentiable manifolds; ii. Riemannian manifolds; iii. Dirichlet processes; iv. Parametric models on Sd and Σk2; References; Subject index.

'… this is an excellent text that will benefit many students in computer science, mathematics, and physics … A significant plus of the book is the library of MATLAB codes and datasets available for download from the authors' site.' Alexander Tzanov, Computing Reviews