Raimon Tolosana-Delgado is a senior scientist from the department of modelling and valuation at Helmholtz Institute Freiberg, Germany. He is a specialist in compositional data analysis, applied multivariate geostatistics, and applications of statistics, data analysis and machine learning in geology as well as in the mining and minerals industry. His current focus is on predictive geometallurgy.Ute Mueller is an associate professor in mathematics at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. She has been teaching geostatistics for the last twenty years and has a research background in the application of multivariate geostatistical modelling techniques in mining, fisheries and health. In the last ten years she has focussed on compositional geostatistical data in particular.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 A review of compositional data analysis.- 3 Exploratory data analysis.- 4 Exploratory spatial analysis.- 5 Variogram Models.- 6 Geostatistical estimation.- 7 Cross-validation.- 8 Multivariate normal score transformation.- 9 Simulation.- 10 Compositional Direct Sampling Simulation.- 11 Evaluation and Postprocessing of Results.- A Matrix decompositions.- B Complete data analysis workflows.- Index.

Raimon Tolosana-Delgado is a senior scientist from the department of modelling and valuation at Helmholtz Institute Freiberg, Germany. He is a specialist in compositional data analysis, applied multivariate geostatistics, and applications of statistics, data analysis and machine learning in geology as well as in the mining and minerals industry. His current focus is on predictive geometallurgy.Ute Mueller is an associate professor in mathematics at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. She has been teaching geostatistics for the last twenty years and has a research background in the application of multivariate geostatistical modelling techniques in mining, fisheries and health. In the last ten years she has focussed on compositional geostatistical data in particular.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 A review of compositional data analysis.- 3 Exploratory data analysis.- 4 Exploratory spatial analysis.- 5 Variogram Models.- 6 Geostatistical estimation.- 7 Cross-validation.- 8 Multivariate normal score transformation.- 9 Simulation.- 10 Compositional Direct Sampling Simulation.- 11 Evaluation and Postprocessing of Results.- A Matrix decompositions.- B Complete data analysis workflows.- Index.

Raimon Tolosana-Delgado is a senior scientist from the department of modelling and valuation at Helmholtz Institute Freiberg, Germany. He is a specialist in compositional data analysis, applied multivariate geostatistics, and applications of statistics, data analysis and machine learning in geology as well as in the mining and minerals industry. His current focus is on predictive geometallurgy.Ute Mueller is an associate professor in mathematics at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. She has been teaching geostatistics for the last twenty years and has a research background in the application of multivariate geostatistical modelling techniques in mining, fisheries and health. In the last ten years she has focussed on compositional geostatistical data in particular.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 A review of compositional data analysis.- 3 Exploratory data analysis.- 4 Exploratory spatial analysis.- 5 Variogram Models.- 6 Geostatistical estimation.- 7 Cross-validation.- 8 Multivariate normal score transformation.- 9 Simulation.- 10 Compositional Direct Sampling Simulation.- 11 Evaluation and Postprocessing of Results.- A Matrix decompositions.- B Complete data analysis workflows.- Index.