Characterization of distributional forms for compositional data and associated distributional tests

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 667-680

  Aitchison, John ^a   Mateu Figueras, Gloria ^b   Ng, Kai W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Angular; Logistic skew normal distribution; Logistic normal distribution; Logistic student distribution; Marginal; Radius tests of normality; Simplicial singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 4344629393     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MATG.0000002983.12476.89     Document Type: Article

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