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compositions (version 1.01-1)

Blood23: Blood samples

Description

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

Usage

data(Blood23)

Arguments

source

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

Details

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

All rows sum to 100.

References

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