CHPTER2多維数据的图示分析(多元统计分析课件-西安交通大学严明义).docVIP

CHPTER 2 Exploring Multivariate Data Graphically Introduction According to Chambers et al.《Graphical Methods for Data Analysis》,1983, “ there is no statistical tool that is as powerful as a well-chosen graph”. Certainly graphical presentation has a number of advantages over tabular displays of numerical results, not least in creating interest and attracting the attention of the viewer. And graphical analysis often provides the vehicle for discovering the unexpected. During the last two decades a wide variety of new methods for displaying data graphically has been developed; these will hunt