The use or misuse of three-dimensional graphs to represent lower-dimensional data?

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 96-100

  Siegrist, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ESTIMATION; GRAPH THEORY; PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BAR CHARTS; PIE CHARTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL GRAPHS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 0030100550     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492996120300     Document Type: Article

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