Discriminant analysis for compositional data and robust parameter estimation

Computational Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 585-604

  Filzmoser, Peter ^a   Hron, Karel ^b   Templ, Matthias ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Compositional data; Discriminant analysis; Logratio transformations; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868352883     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-011-0279-8     Document Type: Article

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