Using density-distribution sunflower plots to explore bivariate relationships in dense data

Stata Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 371-384

  Dupont, William D ^a   Plummer Jr , W Dale ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate data; Density plot; Gr0016; Graphical statistics; Probability density function; Scatterplot; Sunflower plot

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646508815     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0500500306     Document Type: Article

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