Automated box-cox transformations for improved visual encoding

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 130-140

  MacIejewski, Ross ^a   Pattath, Avin ^b   Ko, Sungahn ^c   Hafen, Ryan ^d   Cleveland, William S ^c   Ebert, David S ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox; color mapping; Data transformation; normal distribution; statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

BOX COX TRANSFORMATION; BOX-COX; CHOROPLETH MAPS; COLOR MAPPING; DATA TRANSFORMATION; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODELING;

DATA VISUALIZATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

METADATA;

EID: 84870532940     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.64     Document Type: Article

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