Dot plots

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 276-281

  Wilkinson, Leland ^a,b  

^a SPSS Inc   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dotplot; Graphics; Histogram; Kernel density estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033469924     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474474     Document Type: Article

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