J Aitchison

Biographic Data

ID5729049
NAMEJ Aitchison
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEAitchison
SIGNATUREAITCHISON J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Glasgow
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
H-INDEX1

  • Some comments on compositional data analysis in archaeometry, in particular the fallacies in Tangri and Wright’s dismissal of logratio analysis

    Open AccessJ Aitchison, C Barceló‐Vidal et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2002

    This comment exposes the fallacies in the Tangri and Wright (1993) dismissal of the methodology of logratio analysis of compositional data as dangerous surgery. It suggests that compositional data analysts should pay enough attention to the basic nature of compositional data and some elementary principles underlying coherent study in order to avoid meaningless inferences

  • The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data

    Open AccessJ AitchisonBOOKThe Statistical Analysis of…1986

  • The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data

    Open AccessJ AitchisonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Statistical…1982

    The simplex plays an important role as sample space in many practical situations where compositional data, in the form of proportions of some whole, require interpretation. It is argued that the statistical analysis of such data has proved difficult because of a lack both of concepts of independence and of rich enough parametric classes of distributions in the simplex. A variety of independence hypotheses are introduced and interrelated, and new …

  • The Lognormal Distribution

    Open AccessHenri Guitton, J Aitchison et al.ARTICLERevue économique1959

  • The Lognormal Distribution with Special Reference to Its Uses in Economics

    Alan Stuart, J Aitchison et al.ARTICLEEconomica1957

  • The Lognormal Distribution

    L R Klein, J Aitchison et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1957Cited by: 16

    Journal Article The Lognormal Distribution Get access The Lognormal Distribution. By J. Aitchison and J. A. C. Brown. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Pp. xviii + 176. 35s.) L. R. Klein L. R. Klein Institute of Statistics, Oxford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 67, Issue 268, 1 December 1957, Pages 713–715, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227716 Published: 01 Dece…