Centre: Compositional Centre

In tricolore: A Flexible Color Scale for Ternary Compositions

Description

Calculate the centre of a compositional data set.

Usage

Centre(P)

Arguments

P	n by m matrix of compositions p1, ..., pm_i for i=1,...,n.

Value

The centre of P as an m element numeric vector.

References

Von Eynatten, H., Pawlowsky-Glahn, V., & Egozcue, J. J. (2002). Understanding perturbation on the simplex: A simple method to better visualize and interpret compositional data in ternary diagrams. Mathematical Geology, 34(3), 249-257.

Pawlowsky-Glahn, V., Egozcue, J. J., & Tolosana-Delgado, R. (2007). Lecture Notes on Compositional Data Analysis. Retrieved from https://dugi-doc.udg.edu/bitstream/handle/10256/297/CoDa-book.pdf

Examples

P <- prop.table(matrix(runif(300), 100), margin = 1)
tricolore:::Centre(P)

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