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Re: Visualising data by cleveland

To: "Jonathan Dakin" <jdakin@overwey.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Visualising data by cleveland
From: "Thompson, David (MNR)" <david.thompson@mnr.gov.on.ca>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:12:53 -0400
Cc: "Splus Mailing List" <s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu>
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>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
ml

DaveT.
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