Log-Ratio Analysis Is a Limiting Case of Correspondence Analysis

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-134

  Greenacre, Michael ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compositional data analysis; Contingency ratios; Distributional equivalence; Log ratios; Power transformation; Spectral mapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952888144     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-008-9212-2     Document Type: Article

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