Transformations for compositional data with zeros with an application to forensic evidence evaluation

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-85

  Neocleous, Tereza ^a   Aitken, Colin ^b   Zadora, Grzegorz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Compositional data; Forensic science; Glass fragments; Likelihood ratio; Physicochemical data

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; IRON; MAGNESIUM; POTASSIUM; SILICON; SODIUM;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 80053641238     PISSN: 01697439     EISSN: 18733239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemolab.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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