Blood23 {compositions}

Blood samples

Description

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

Usage

data(Blood23)

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:

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

All rows sum to 100.

Note

Courtesy of J. Aitchison

Source

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

References

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