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## Normal distributions on special spaces

### Description

`rnorm.`X generates multivariate normal random variates in the space X.

### Usage

    rnorm.acomp(n,mean,var)
    rnorm.rcomp(n,mean,var)
    rnorm.aplus(n,mean,var)
    rnorm.rplus(n,mean,var)
    rnorm.rmult(n,mean,var)
    dnorm.acomp(x,mean,var)
    dnorm.aplus(x,mean,var)
    dnorm.rmult(x,mean,var)

### Arguments

`n` | number of datasets to be simulated
`mean` | The mean of the dataset to be simulated
`var` | The variance covariance matrix
`x` | vectors in the sampling space

### Details

The normal distributions in the variouse spaces dramatically differ. The normal distribution in the `rmult` space is the commonly known multivariate joint normal distribution. For `rplus` this distribution has to be somehow truncated at 0. This is here done by setting negative values to 0.
The normal distribution of `rcomp` is seen as a normal distribution within the simplex as a geometrical portion of the real vector space. The variance is thus forced to be singular and restricted to the affine subspace generated by the simplex. The necessary truncation of negative values is currently done by setting them explicitly to zero and reclosing afterwards.
The `"acomp"` and `"aplus"` are itself metric vector spaces and thus a normal distribution is defined in them just as in the real space. The resulting distribution corresponds to a multivariate lognormal in the case of `"aplus"` and in Aitchisons normal distribution in the simplex in the case of `"acomp"` (TO DO: Is that right??).
For the vector spaces `rmult`, `aplus`, `acomp` it is further possible to provide densities wiht repect to their Lebesgue measure. In the other cases this is not possible since the resulting distributions are not absolutly continues with respect to such a measure due to the truncation.

### Value

a random dataset of the given class generated by a normal distribution with the given mean and variance in the given space.

### Author(s)

K.Gerald v.d. Boogaart http://www.stat.boogaart.de

### References

Aitchison, J. (1986) The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability. Chapman & Hall Ltd., London (UK). 416p.

Pawlowsky-Glahn, V. and J.J. Egozcue (2001) Geometric approach to statistical analysis on the simplex. SERRA 15(5), 384-398

Aitchison, J, C. Barcel'o-Vidal, J.J. Egozcue, V. Pawlowsky-Glahn (2002) A consise guide to the algebraic geometric structure of the simplex, the sample space for compositional data analysis, Terra Nostra, Schriften der Alfred Wegener-Stiftung, 03/2003

### See Also

`runif.acomp`, `rlnorm.rplus`, `rDirichlet.acomp`

### Examples

    MyVar <- matrix(c(
    0.2,0.1,0.0,
    0.1,0.2,0.0,
    0.0,0.0,0.2),byrow=TRUE,nrow=3)
    MyMean <- c(1,1,2)

    plot(rnorm.acomp(100,MyMean,MyVar))
    plot(rnorm.rcomp(100,MyMean,MyVar))
    plot(rnorm.aplus(100,MyMean,MyVar))
    plot(rnorm.rplus(100,MyMean,MyVar))
    plot(rnorm.rmult(100,MyMean,MyVar))
    x <- rnorm.aplus(5,MyMean,MyVar)
    dnorm.acomp(x,MyMean,MyVar)
    dnorm.aplus(x,MyMean,MyVar)
    dnorm.rmult(x,MyMean,MyVar)

[Package compositions version 0.91-6 Index]