Robust factor analysis for compositional data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1854-1861

  Filzmoser, Peter ^a   Hron, Karel ^b   Reimann, Clemens ^c   Garrett, Robert ^d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centred logratio transformation; Compositional biplot; Factor analysis; Isometric logratio transformation; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

CENTRED LOGRATIO TRANSFORMATION; COMPOSITIONAL BIPLOT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; ISOMETRIC LOGRATIO TRANSFORMATION; ROBUST ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MAPPING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 68749104354     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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