ABSTRACT

Compositional data are quantitative descriptions of the parts of some whole, conveying exclusively relative information. Examples are found in various fields, including geology, medicine, chemistry, agriculture, economics, social science, etc. This concise book presents a very applied introduction to compositional data analysis, focussing on the use of R for analysis. It includes lots of real examples, code snippets, and colour figures, to illustrate the methods.

chapter 3|8 pages

Logratio transformations

chapter 4|8 pages

Properties and distributions of logratios

chapter 7|8 pages

Clustering of compositional data

chapter 8|8 pages

Problem of zeros, with some solutions

chapter 9|8 pages

Simplifying the task: variable selection

chapter |4 pages

D Appendix: Glossary of terms

chapter |4 pages

E Appendix: Epilogue