Linking ArcView™ and XGobi: Insight behind the Front End

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 470-490

  Symanzik, Jürgen ^a   Cook, Dianne ^b   Lewin Koh, Nicholas ^b   Majure, James J ^c   Megretskaia, Inna ^d  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c Harvard University ^*  (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartographic data; Dynamic statistical graphics; Geographic information system; Interprocess communication; Multivariate spatial data; Spatial cumulative distribution function; Spatial statistics; Spatially lagged scatterplot; Variogram cloud plot

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044524215     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2000.10474894     Document Type: Article

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