>Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>
>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.
>
>--
>Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
> Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt
>University
That scripts link (at least for Visualizing Data) is:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/wsc/visualizing.datafig.ht
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DaveT.
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