The normal distribution in some constrained sample spaces

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Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-56

  Mateu Figueras, Glòria ^a   Pawlowsky Glahn, Vera ^a   Egozcue, Juan José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Additive logistic normal distribution; Aitchison measure; Lebesgue measure; Lognor mal distribution; Orthonormal basis; Simplex

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE LOGISTIC NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; AITCHISON MEASURE; LEBESGUE MEASURE; LOGNOR- MAL DISTRIBUTION; ORTHONORMAL BASIS; SIMPLEX;

STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84879289679     PISSN: 16962281     EISSN: 20138830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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