Blood23             package:compositions             R Documentation

_B_l_o_o_d _s_a_m_p_l_e_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Percentage of different leukocytes in blood samples of ten
     patients, determined by four different methods.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Blood23)

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     In a comparative study of four different methods of assessing
     leukocytes composition of a blood sample, aliquots of blood
     samples from ten patients were assessed by the four methods. Data
     show the percentage in the 40 analyses of:

         P:  polymorphonuclear leukocytes,
         S:  small lymphocytes,
         L:  large mononuclears.

     All rows sum to 100.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Aitchison: CODA microcomputer statistical package, 1986, the file
     name BLOOD.DAT, here included under the GNU Public Library Licence
     Version 2 or newer.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Aitchison: The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data, 1986,
     Data 23, pp22.

