Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Juan J. Egozcue, Raimon Tolosana-Delgado
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Statistics in practice
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Introduction -- Compositional Data and Their Sample Space -- Basic concepts -- Principles of compositional analysis -- Scale invariance -- Permutation invariance -- Subcompositional coherence -- Zeros, missing values, and other irregular components -- Kinds of irregular components -- Strategies to analyze irregular data -- Exercises -- The Aitchison Geometry -- General comments -- Vector space structure -- Inner product, norm and distance -- Geometric figures -- Exercises -- Coordinate Representation -- Introduction -- Compositional observations in real space -- Generating systems -- Orthonormal coordinates -- Balances -- Working on coordinates -- Additive logratio coordinates (alr) -- Orthogonal projections -- Matrix operations in the simplex -- Perturbation-linear combination of compositions -- Linear transformations of SD: endomorphisms -- Other matrix transformations on SD: nonlinear transformations -- Coordinates leading to alternative Euclidean structures -- Exercises -- Exploratory Data Analysis -- General remarks -- Sample center, total variance, and variation matrix -- Centering and scaling -- The biplot: a graphical display -- Construction of a biplot -- Interpretation of a 2D compositional biplot -- Exploratory analysis of coordinates -- A geological example -- Linear trends along principal components -- A nutrition example -- A political example -- Exercises -- Random Compositions -- Sample space -- Conventional approach to the sample space of compositions -- A compositional approach to the sample space of compositions -- Definitions related to random compositions -- Variability and center -- Probability distributions on the simplex -- The normal distribution on the simplex -- The Dirichlet distribution -- Other distributions -- Exercises -- Statistical Inference -- Point estimation of center and variability -- Testing hypotheses on compositional normality -- Testing hypotheses about two populations -- Probability and confidence regions for normal data -- Bayesian estimation with count data -- Exercises -- Linear Models -- Linear regression with compositional response -- Regression with compositional covariates -- Analysis of variance with compositional response -- Linear discrimination with compositional predictor -- Exercises -- Compositional Processes -- Linear processes -- Mixture processes -- Settling processes -- Simplicial derivative -- Elementary differential equations -- Constant derivative -- Forced derivative -- Complete first-order linear equation -- Harmonic oscillator -- Exercises -- Epilogue