position of the rationing variable for alr transformation
dl
detection limit for each part
eps
convergence criteria
maxit
maximum number of iterations
bruteforce
if TRUE, imputations over dl are set to dl. If FALSE,
truncated (Tobit) regression is applied.
method
either “lm” (default) or “MM”
step
if TRUE, a stepwise (AIC) procedure is applied when fitting
models
nComp
if determined, it fixes the number of pls components. If
“boot”, the number of pls components are estimated using a
bootstraped cross validation approach.
R
number of bootstrap samples for the determination of pls
components. Only important for method “pls”.
verbose
additional print output during calculations.
Author
Matthias Templ and Karel Hron
Details
Statistical analysis of compositional data including zeros runs into
problems, because log-ratios cannot be applied. Usually, rounded zeros are
considerer as missing not at random missing values. The algorithm first
applies an additive log-ratio transformation to the compositions. Then the
rounded zeros are imputed using a modified EM algorithm.
References
Palarea-Albaladejo, J., Martin-Fernandez, J.A. Gomez-Garcia, J. (2007)
A parametric approach for dealing with compositional rounded zeros.
Mathematical Geology, 39(7), 625-645.