40 years after Aitchison’s article “The statistical analysis of compositional data”: where we are and where we are heading

• Germà Coenders ^[1] ; Juan José Egozcue ^[2] ; Kamila Fačevicová ^[4] ; Carolina Navarro-López ^[3] ; Javier Palarea-Albaladejo ^[1] ; Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn ^[1] ; Raimon Tolosana-Delgado ^[5]
  1. [1] Universitat de Girona

     Universitat de Girona

     Gerona, España

     
  2. [2] Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Barcelona, España

     
  3. [3] Universitat de les Illes Balears

     Universitat de les Illes Balears

     Palma de Mallorca, España

     
  4. [4] Palacky University Olomouc
  5. [5] Helmholtz-Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology

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• Localización: Sort: Statistics and Operations Research Transactions, ISSN 1696-2281, Vol. 47, Nº. 2, 2023, págs. 1-10
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The year 2022 marked 40 years since Aitchison published the article “The statistical analysis of compositional data”. It is considered to be the foundation of contemporary compositional data analysis. It is time to review what has been accomplished in the feld and what needs to be addressed. Astonishingly enough, many aspects seen as challenging in 1982 continue to lead to fruitful scholarly work. We commence with a bib- liometric study and continue with some hot topics such as multi-way compositions, com- positional regression models, dealing with zero values, non-logratio transformations, new application felds, and a number of current loose ends. Finally, a tentative future research agenda is outlined