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Distributions on the Simplex for the Analysis of Neutrality

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Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((ASIC,volume 79))

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The useful independence concept of neutrality introduced by Connor and Mosimann (1969) for the analysis of proportions has not yet been fully exploited because of the lack of a rich parametric class of distributions on the simplex which will accomodate both neutrality and non-neutrality. This paper provides such a class of distributions and so opens the way to standard statistical tests of neutrality hypotheses and to the fitting of parametric models to non-neutral data.

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  1. Department of Statistics, University of Hong Kong, China

    J. Aitchison

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  1. Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Charles Taillie  & Ganapati P. Patil  & 

  2. Instituto di Calcolo delle Probabilità, Facoltà di Scienze Statistische Demografiche e Attuariali, Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy

    Bruno A. Baldessari

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Aitchison, J. (1981). Distributions on the Simplex for the Analysis of Neutrality. In: Taillie, C., Patil, G.P., Baldessari, B.A. (eds) Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8549-0_11

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