Re: Off topic - scatter plots

Posted by Anthony Babinec on Jan 04, 2007; 4:23pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Off-topic-scatter-plots-tp1072969p1072972.html

Here's a link to the anscombe data

http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/anscomb2.htm



-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Stephen Hampshire
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:56 AM
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Subject: Off topic - scatter plots

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