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http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1305%28197302%2927%3A1%3C17%3AGISA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Off topic - scatter plots
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:49:49 -0500
From: Daniel Robertson <
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To: Stephen Hampshire <
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The reference to the original article (w/ data) is:
Anscombe, F. J. (1973, Feb). Graphs in Statistical Analysis. The
American Statistician, 27(1), 17-21.
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http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1305%28196102%2915%3A1%3C21%3ABS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-UStephen Hampshire wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I hope you'll forgive the offtopic posting, but my Googling is letting me
> down.
>
> Some years ago I came across some nice little data sets that illustrated how
> variables could have identical descriptive statistics and identical linear
> relationships, yet when plotted in a scatter graph had obviously different
> true relationships (one was linear, one was probably quadratic etc).
>
> Can anyone point me to a reference for the data? I've tried creating some
> myself, and it's difficult to come up with anything as neat as this example
> was.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
>
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Daniel Robertson
Sr. Research and Planning Associate
Institutional Research and Planning
Cornell University
440 Day Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-2801
ph:607.255.9642 / irp.cornell.edu
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