compositional-data

Give me an adequate correlation: assessing relationships in percentage (or proportional) data

Karel Hron, Peter Filzmoser / 2021-02-04

We assume that you are quite familiar with the following problem. Consider a data set where the information is expressed in percentages or proportions. An example are household expenditures, given as average amounts (in Euros) the households are spending on food, housing, transportation, etc. Since…