The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data

Abstract

1 Compositional data: some challenging problems.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Geochemical compositions of rocks.- 1.3 Sediments at different depths.- 1.4 Ternary diagrams.- 1.5 Partial analyses and subcompositions.- 1.6 Supervisory behaviour.- 1.7 Household budget surveys.- 1.8 Steroid metabolite patterns in adults and children.- 1.9 Activity patterns of a statistician.- 1.10 Calibration of white-cell compositions.- 1.11 Fruit evaluation.- 1.12 Firework mixtures.- 1.13 Clam ecology.- 1.14 Bibliographic notes.- Problems.- 2 The simplex as sample space.- 2.1 Choice of sample space.- 2.2 Compositions and simplexes.- 2.3 Spaces, vectors, matrices.- 2.4 Bases and compositions.- 2.5 Subcompositions.- 2.6 Amalgamations.- 2.7 Partitions.- 2.8 Perturbations.- 2.9 Geometrical representations of compositi