The statistical analysis of compositional data by j aitchison universityof hong kong read before the royal statistical society at a meeting organized by the research section on wednesday 13th january 1982 professor r n curnow in the chair summary the simplex plays an important role as sample space in many practical situations where. The statistical analysis of compositional data j aitchison auth year 1986 publisher springer netherlands language english pages 430 isbn 13 978 94 009 4109 0 series monographs on statistics and applied probability file pdf 777 mb preview send to kindle or email please login to your account first need help please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle save . The simplex plays an important role as sample space in many practical situations where compositional data in the form of proportions of some whole require interpretation it is argued that the statistical analysis of such data has proved difficult because of a lack both of concepts of independence and of rich enough parametric classes of distributions in the simplex a variety of independence hypotheses are introduced and interrelated and new classes of transformed normal distributions . The statistical analysis of compositional data by j aitchison university of hong kong read before the royal statistical society at a meeting organized by the research section on wednesday 13th january 1982 professor r n curnow in the chair summary the simplex plays an important role as sample space in many practical situations where