Visualizing Data

Type

Book

Authors

Cleveland ( Cleveland, William S. )

ISBN 10

0963488406

ISBN 13

9780963488404

Tags

Data Modeling & Design, Graphics & Design, Mathematics, Computer Science

Description

Visualizing Data is about visualizationtools that provide deep insight into thestructure of data. There are graphicaltools such as coplots, multiway dot plots,and the equal count algorithm. There arefitting tools such as loess and bisquarethat fit equations, nonparametric curves,and nonparametric surfaces to data.But the book is much more than just acompendium of useful tools. It conveys astrategy for data analysis that stressesthe use of visualization to thoroughlystudy the structure of data and to checkthe validity of statistical models fittedto data. The result of the tools and thestrategy is a vast increase in what you canlearn from your data. The book demonstratesthis by reanalyzing many data sets from thescientific literature, revealing missedeffects and inappropriate models fitted to data. - from Amzon

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