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According to Chambers, Cleveland, Kleiner, and Tukey (1983), “there is no statistical tool that is as powerful as a well-chosen graph”. Certainly graphical presentation has a number of advantages over tabular displays of numerical results, not least in creating interest and attracting the attention of the viewer. But just what is a graphical display? A concise description is given by Tufte (1983): Data graphics visually display measured quantities by means of the combined use of points, lines, a coordinate system, numbers, symbols, words, shading and color.
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Everitt, B., Hothorn, T. (2011). Looking at Multivariate Data: Visualisation. In: An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis with R. Use R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9650-3_2
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