Correlation analysis for compositional data

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 905-919

  Filzmoser, Peter ^a   Hron, Karel ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Amalgamation; Balances; Compositional data; Correlation analysis; Ilr transformation; Log ratio transformation; Robust statistics; Subcompositions

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL DATA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION MEASURES; DATA EXAMPLES; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; ROBUST STATISTICS; SPECIAL TREATMENTS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; METALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA HANDLING;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOSTATISTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 76749122443     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-008-9196-y     Document Type: Article

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