Jonathan Dakin wrote:
Could anyone comment on the relative merits of two of Cleveland's books:
"Elements of Graphing Data" (94), and "Visualising Data" (93) ?
I'm looking for fairly basic account of the principles of graphical
exploration, with particular reference to Splus, which is not too heavy
on statistical theory. My interest is medical data. If the scripts and
datasets used in either are publicly available that would be a big plus.
Many thanks
Jonathan Dakin
These are awesome books and everyone who looks at data should own them.
The Elements of Graphing Data book is the best how-to for scientific
graphics. There is a web site with scripts from the books although
Cleveland used a few customizations.
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Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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