David Firth

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Research in #statistics, University of Warwick. https://warwick.ac.uk/dfirth Also @firthstat@fediscience.org (Mastodon) Current main interest is compositional data analysis. Programming in #rstats

Image of a poster to be presented at the Royal Statistical Society conference in Edinburgh, September 2025. The main point is to generalize the idea of a ternary plot to handle 4-part compositions, by showing views through the triangular faces of a tetrahedron. The data shown are vote counts from England, Scotland and Wales in the UK General Election of July 2024.

The top part of today's Premier League table, mathematically adjusted. It has Bournemouth in 4th place, not 7th as in the official table. In effect Bournemouth have a game in hand over City, 2 games in hand over Newcastle and nearly 3 games in hand over Chelsea. Source alt3.uk.