Basic Concepts and Procedures

Compositional Data Analysis: Theory and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 12-28

  Egozcue, Juan José ^a   Pawlowsky Glahn, Vera ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Basic concepts and procedures and compositional data (CoDa); Centre and variability synthesizing information, from sample using simple descriptors; CoDa analysis, three steps data in log ratio type coordinates, real random variables; Compositional alternative unsuccessful experiences analysing CoDa; Compositional data in experimental scientific fields; Election data and raw analysis anomalous behaviour of standard statistical methods, raw CoDa; Geometric settings satisfying requirements, geometry of D part simplex, SD required; Mass of a material sample, irrelevant analysts, and geo biochemical composition of sample; Principles of compositional data analysis by John Aitchison, methodology free of all problems; Subcomposition, subset of components, or parts of a composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861485497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119976462.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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