arctic lake sediment data
Sand, silt, clay compositions of 39 sediment samples at different water depths in an Arctic lake. This data set can be found on page 359 of the Aitchison book (see reference).
data(arcticLake)
A data frame with 39 rows and 3 variables
sand
numeric vector of percentages of sand
silt
numeric vector of percentages of silt
clay
numeric vector of percentages of clay
The rows sum up to 100, except for rounding errors.
Matthias Templ matthias.templ@tuwien.ac.at
Aitchison, J. (1986). The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data. Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability. Chapman \& Hall Ltd., London (UK). 416p.
data(arcticLake) str(arcticLake) summary(arcticLake) rowSums(arcticLake) ternaryDiag(arcticLake) plot(pivotCoord(arcticLake))
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