Posted by
Mike P-5 on
Jan 04, 2007; 3:59pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Off-topic-scatter-plots-tp1072969p1072973.html
I think your probably looking for Anscombe's Quartet stuff
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Stephen Hampshire
Sent: 04 January 2007 14:56
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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
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