The normal distribution in some constrained sample spaces

zbMATH Open1296.60002arXiv0802.2643MaRDI QIDQ2920802FDOQ2920802

Authors: Glòria Mateu-Figueras, Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Juan-José Egozcue 

Publication date: 29 September 2014

Published in: SORT. Statistics and Operations Research Transactions (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Phenomena with a constrained sample space appear frequently in practice. This is the case e.g. with strictly positive data and with compositional data, like percentages and the like. If the natural measure of difference is not the absolute one, it is possible to use simple algebraic properties to show that it is more convenient to work with a geometry that is not the usual Euclidean geometry in real space, and with a measure which is not the usual Lebesgue measure, leading to alternative models which better fit the phenomenon under study. The general approach is presented and illustrated both on the positive real line and on the D-part simplex.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2643

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Probabilistic measure theory (60A10)

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