Metabolites           package:compositions           R Documentation

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

     Data shows the urinary excretion (mg/24 hours) of 37 normal adults
     and 30 normal children of

     *  total cortisol meatbolites,

     *  total corticosterone meatbolites,

     *  total pregnanetriol and $\Delta$-5-pregnentriol.

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

     data(Metabolites)

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

     There are 67 cases for 37 adults and 30 children, and 5 columns:
     Case no., met1, met2, met3 and Type, 1 for adults, $-1$ for
     children. No sum constraint is placed on this data set: since the
     urinary excretion  in mg for 24 hours are given.

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

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

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

     Aitchison, J. (1986) The Statistical Analysis of Compositional
     Data, (Data 9), pp14.

