Understanding perturbation on the simplex: A simple method to better visualize and interpret compositional data in ternary diagrams

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-257

  Von Eynatten, Hilmar ^a   Pawlowsky Glahn, Vera ^b   Egozcue, Juan José ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compositional fields; Geometric mean; Metric center; Rescaling

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0742325558     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: 15738868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014826205533     Document Type: Article

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