Judging correlation from scatterplots and parallel coordinate plots

Information Visualization

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-30

  Li, Jing ^a   Martens, Jean Bernard ^a   Van Wijk, Jarke J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Correlation visualization; Evaluation of visualization; Parallel coordinate plots; Perception of correlation; Scatterplots; Statistical graphs

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION VISUALIZATION; EVALUATION OF VISUALIZATION; PARALLEL COORDINATE PLOTS; SCATTER PLOTS; STATISTICAL GRAPHS;

STATISTICAL TESTS; VISUALIZATION;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EID: 77949392904     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ivs.2008.13     Document Type: Article

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