Convex linear combinations of compositions

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 351-364

  Aitchison, J ^a   Bacon Shone, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dirichlet distribution; End member problem; Lattice testing of hypotheses; Logistic normal distribution; Mixing of compositions; Multivariate skew normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004437577     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.2.351     Document Type: Article

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