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Compositional data analysis : theory and applications /
It is difficult to imagine that the statistical analysis of compositional data has been a major issue of concern for more than 100 years. It is even more difficult to realize that so many statisticians and users of statistics are unaware of the particular problems affecting compositional data, as we...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | It is difficult to imagine that the statistical analysis of compositional data has been a major issue of concern for more than 100 years. It is even more difficult to realize that so many statisticians and users of statistics are unaware of the particular problems affecting compositional data, as well as their solutions. The issue of ``spurious correlation'', as the situation was phrased by Karl Pearson back in 1897, affects all data that measures parts of some whole, such as percentages, proportions, ppm and ppb. Such measurements are present in all fields of science, ranging from geology, bi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 378 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119976462 1119976464 9781119976479 1119976472 9781119977612 1119977614 9781119977629 1119977622 1283204517 9781283204514 9786613204516 661320451X |