The role of perturbation in compositional data analysis

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-185

  Aitchison, John ^a,b   Ng, K W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Hong Kong ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compositional paired comparisons; Group operations in the simplex; Logistic normal distributions; Subcompositional stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 21044449583     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1471082X05st091oa     Document Type: Article

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