R: Blood samples

Blood23 {compositions} | R Documentation

## 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.

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