fossil_pollen {MLEce}

The counts data of the frequency of occurrence of different kinds of fossil pollen grains.

Description

The data is about the counts of the frequency of occurrence of different kinds of fossil pollen grains and is available in Mosimann (1962).

Usage

data(fossil_pollen, package = "MLEce")

Format

A dataframe with 73 observations and 4 variables: pinus, abies, quercus and alnus pollens.

References

Mosimann, J. E. (1962) On the compound multinomial distribution, the multivariate beta distribution, and correlations among proportions. Biometrika, 49, 65-82.