SerumProtein          package:compositions          R Documentation

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

     Data recording the proportions of the 4 serum proteins from blood
     samples of 30 patients, 14 with known disease A, 16 with known
     disease B, and 6 new cases.

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

     data(SerumProtein)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

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

     The data consist of 36 cases: 14 with known disease A, 16 with
     known disease B, and 6 new cases and 5 v variables: a, b, c, and d
     for 4 serum proteins and Type for the diseases: 1 for  disease A,
     2 for  disease B, and 3 for new cases.  All row serum proteins
     proportions sums to 1 except some rounding errors.

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

     Aitchison: CODA microcomputer statistical package, 1986, the file
     name SERPROT.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 16) pp20.

