Nick Cox wrote:
>>For more details on the Aitchison book, which sells under a slightly
different title, see
http://www.blackburnpress.com/stanofcoda.html<<
Whoops. Yes, it's Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data... sitting
right there on the shelf in front of me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aitchison
>>A project of mine for 2008, already started, is to publish Stata
programs for alternatives
to such plots, all using some kind of transformation, including some
suggested by Aitchison.<<
Interesting. I look forward to seeing these, as reading a triangle plot
is difficult and often misleading, because the metric is so far from
Euclidean.
Jay
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