Compositional data

In statistics, compositional data are quantitative descriptions of the parts of some whole, conveying exclusively relative information. This definition, given by John Aitchison (1986) has several consequences: . The vector operation assigning the constant sum representative is called closure and is denoted by : where D is the number of parts (components) and denotes a row vector. * Compositional data can be represented by constant sum real vectors with positive components, and this vectors span a simplex, defined as This is the reason why is arbitrary. Frequent values for

Compositional data

In statistics, compositional data are quantitative descriptions of the parts of some whole, conveying exclusively relative information. This definition, given by John Aitchison (1986) has several consequences: . The vector operation assigning the constant sum representative is called closure and is denoted by : where D is the number of parts (components) and denotes a row vector. * Compositional data can be represented by constant sum real vectors with positive components, and this vectors span a simplex, defined as This is the reason why is arbitrary. Frequent values for