Geometric approach to statistical analysis on the simplex

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 384-398

  Pawlowsky Glahn, V ^a   Egozcue, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aitchison geometry; Compositional data; Euclidean space; Finite dimensional Hilbert space; Metric center; Metric variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035540295     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004770100077     Document Type: Article

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