Revisiting the geometry of a ternary diagram with the half-taxi metric

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 275-290

  Miller, William E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Compositional data; Correspondence analysis; Partial correlation; Taxicab or city block metric; Theory of random graphs

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 5144225396     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: 15738868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014842906442     Document Type: Article

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