A Logistic Normal Mixture Model for Compositional Data Allowing Essential Zeros

The usual candidate distributions for modeling compositions, the Dirichlet and the logistic normal distribution, do not include zero components in their support. Methods have been developed and refined for dealing with zeros that are rounded, or due to a value being below a detection level. Methods...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: John Bear, Dean Billheimer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Austrian Statistical Society 2016-07-01
Series:Austrian Journal of Statistics
Online Access:http://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/117