A remarkable scatterplot

American Statistician

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 12-19

  Spence, Ian ^a   Garrison, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Data analysis; Graphical perception; Hertzsprung Russell diagram; History of science; Modeling; Stellar evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548638241     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1993.10475925     Document Type: Article

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