摘要:Regression analysis, for prediction purposes, with compositional data is the sub ject of this paper. We examine both cases when compositional data are either response or predictor variables. A parametric model is assumed but the interest lies in the accuracy of the predicted values. For this reason, a data based power transformation is employed in both cases and the results are compared with the standard log-ratio approach. There are some interesting results and one advantage of the methods proposed here is the handling of the zero values.
关键词:Compositional data ; regression ; prediction ; α-transformation ; principal ; component regression