To transform or not to transform: That is the dilemma in the statistical analysis of plant volatiles

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ranganathan, Yuvaraj ^a   Borges, Renee M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Auto correlation; Chemical ecology; Compositional data; Data mining; Data transformation; Proportion data; Random forests

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; PLANT; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FRUIT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PLANTS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79956280449     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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