Statistical inference for exploratory data analysis and model diagnostics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1906, 2009, Pages 4361-4383

  Buja, Andreas ^a   Cook, Dianne ^b   Hofmann, Heike ^b   Lawrence, Michael ^c   Lee, Eun Kyung ^d   Swayne, Deborah F ^e   Wickham, Hadley ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^e AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^f Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive perception; Permutation tests; Rotation tests; Simulation; Statistical graphics; Visual data mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CURRICULA; DATA HANDLING; ROTATION; STATISTICS;

COGNITIVE PERCEPTION; DATA ANALYSTS; DATA SETS; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN COGNITION; PERMUTATION TESTS; RANDOM VARIABILITY; SIMULATED DATASETS; STATISTICAL GRAPHICS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICAL TESTING; STATISTICAL THINKING; VISUAL DATA MINING; WORKING PROCEDURE;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ARTICLE; HOUSING; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HOUSING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 73349124770     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0120     Document Type: Article

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