The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data by J. Aitchison
The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability) by J. Aitchison
English | 1986 | ISBN: 940108324X | 430 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | 1986 | ISBN: 940108324X | 430 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
As long ago as 1897 Karl Pearson, in a now classic paper on spurious correlation, first pointed out dangers that may befall the analyst who attempts to interpret correlations between ratios whose numerators and denominators contain common parts. He thus implied that the analysis of compositional data, with its concentration on relation ships between proportions of some whole, is likely to be fraught with difficulty. History has proved him correct: over the succeeding years and indeed right up to the present day, there has been no other form of data analysis where more confusion has reigned and where more improper and inadequate statistical methods have been applied. The special and intrinsic feature of compositional data is that the proportions of a composition are naturally subject to a unit-sum constraint.