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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Pearmain [mailto:
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> Sent: 04 January 2007 16:00
> To: Stephen Hampshire;
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> Subject: RE: Off topic - scatter plots
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>
> I think your probably looking for Anscombe's Quartet stuff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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> Stephen Hampshire
> Sent: 04 January 2007 14:56
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> Subject: Off topic - scatter plots
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> 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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