Audit report on Jones County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on Jones County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

State of Iowa’s Single Audit Report for the year ended June 30, 2006

State of Iowa’s Single Audit Report for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on a special investigation of the Bear Creek Narcotics Task Force for the period July 1, 2003 through November 30, 2006

Audit report on a special investigation of the Bear Creek Narcotics Task Force for the period July 1, 2003 through November 30, 2006

Audit report on the Delaware County Solid Waste Disposal Commission for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Delaware County Solid Waste Disposal Commission for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on Carroll County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on Carroll County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on applying agreed-upon procedures for the City of Linden’s compliance with road use tax requirements for the period July 1, 1999 through June 30, 2004

Audit report on applying agreed-upon procedures for the City of Linden’s compliance with road use tax requirements for the period July 1, 1999 through June 30, 2004

Agreed upon procedures report of the Protective Payee Program of Lee County as of February 15, 2007

Agreed upon procedures report of the Protective Payee Program of Lee County as of February 15, 2007

Audit report on Page County, Iowa for the year ending June 30, 2006

Audit report on Page County, Iowa for the year ending June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the City of Walford, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the City of Walford, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Jackson County Sanitary Disposal Agency independent auditor's reports, basic financial statements and required supplementary information, schedule of findings, June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Jackson County Sanitary Disposal Agency for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Judicial Retirement System for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Judicial Retirement System for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Sheep and Wool Promotion Board for the years ended June 30, 2006 and 2005

Audit report on the Iowa Sheep and Wool Promotion Board for the years ended June 30, 2006 and 2005

Some last thoughts on compositional data analysis

One of the disadvantages of old age is that there is more past than future: this,however, may be turned into an advantage if the wealth of experience and, hopefully,wisdom gained in the past can be reflected upon and throw some light on possiblefuture trends. To an extent, then, this talk is necessarily personal, certainly nostalgic,but also self critical and inquisitive about our understanding of the discipline ofstatistics. A number of almost philosophical themes will run through the talk: searchfor appropriate modelling in relation to the real problem envisaged, emphasis onsensible balances between simplicity and complexity, the relative roles of theory andpractice, the nature of communication of inferential ideas to the statistical layman, theinter-related roles of teaching, consultation and research. A list of keywords might be:identification of sample space and its mathematical structure, choices betweentransform and stay, the role of parametric modelling, the role of a sample spacemetric, the underused hypothesis lattice, the nature of compositional change,particularly in relation to the modelling of processes. While the main theme will berelevance to compositional data analysis we shall point to substantial implications forgeneral multivariate analysis arising from experience of the development ofcompositional data analysis…