The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data
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Compositional information can be quantitated.
“Just like sequence information, compositional information may be quantitated (figure 4) [94,96].”
From Systems protobiology: origin of life in lipid catalytic networks (2018) · cites this paper as [94]
Compositional data analysis is a well-studied and documented field of statistics.
“Fortunately, compositional data analysis is a well-studied and documented field of statistics (Aitchison, 1986).”
From The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis (2019) · cites this paper as Aitchison, 1986
Both 16S and WGS produce compositional data that contains information about ratios between parts of the whole but never contains information about absolute counting numbers.
“Perhaps the most important point to consider when analyzing microbiome data is that both 16S and WGS produce compositional data, data that contains information about the ratios between parts of the whole, but never contains information about absolute counting numbers (Aitchison, 1986).”
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- Authors
- Aitchison, J.
- Corresponding author
- Aitchison, J.
- Venue
- Springer eBooks
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Published
- 1986
- OpenAlex
- W4299542564
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- FWCI
- 5.23
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- book
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- en
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- closed
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
- Keywords
- compositional data, log-ratio transformation, log-ratio analysis, relative abundance, multivariate analysis
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