Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer |
Autore | Wainer Howard |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 519.5 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematical statistics - Graphic methods
Mathematical statistics - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-691-10301-1
1-4008-4927-6 |
Classificazione | MR 2100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display -- Why playfair? -- Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- Scaling the heights (and widths) -- A priestley view of international currency exchanges -- Tom's veggies and the American way -- The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair -- Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns -- II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world -- A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam -- Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes -- Order in the court -- No order in the court -- Like a trout in the milk -- Scaling the market -- Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view -- There they go again ! -- Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining? -- Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students -- III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century -- John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines -- A selection of anomalies -- Dramatis personae. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453728203321 |
Wainer Howard | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer |
Autore | Wainer Howard |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 519.5 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematical statistics - Graphic methods
Mathematical statistics - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
0-691-10301-1
1-4008-4927-6 |
Classificazione | MR 2100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display -- Why playfair? -- Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- Scaling the heights (and widths) -- A priestley view of international currency exchanges -- Tom's veggies and the American way -- The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair -- Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns -- II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world -- A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam -- Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes -- Order in the court -- No order in the court -- Like a trout in the milk -- Scaling the market -- Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view -- There they go again ! -- Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining? -- Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students -- III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century -- John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines -- A selection of anomalies -- Dramatis personae. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790508603321 |
Wainer Howard | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer |
Autore | Wainer Howard |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 519.5 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematical statistics - Graphic methods
Mathematical statistics - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
0-691-10301-1
1-4008-4927-6 |
Classificazione | MR 2100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display -- Why playfair? -- Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- Scaling the heights (and widths) -- A priestley view of international currency exchanges -- Tom's veggies and the American way -- The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair -- Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns -- II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world -- A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam -- Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes -- Order in the court -- No order in the court -- Like a trout in the milk -- Scaling the market -- Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view -- There they go again ! -- Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining? -- Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students -- III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century -- John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines -- A selection of anomalies -- Dramatis personae. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811531403321 |
Wainer Howard | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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