A Short History of Compositional Data Analysis

Compositional Data Analysis: Theory and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-11

  Bacon Shone, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chayes (1960), and explicit connection Pearson's work and compositional data; Compositional data analysis and problem of 'spurious correlation' between ratios of variables; Compositional data analysis elements of composition, non negative and sum to unity; Dirichlet distribution, restrictive properties as complete subcompositional independence; Generalization of logistic normal distribution to additive logistic skew normal distribution on the simplex; Key question for using log ratio transformations choosing the divisor; Log and log ratio transforms and McAlister of log normal distributions to model data; Mixtures, important application of compositional data, covariate determining a mixture; Public introduction of properties of logistic normal distribution in Aitchison and Shen (1980); Subcompositional dependence logistic normal distribution, modelling useful dependence structures

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EID: 84872092312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119976462.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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