[内容简介]
        Visual Statistics brings the most complex and advanced statistical methods within reach of those with little statistical training by using animated graphics of the data. Using ViSta: The Visual Statistics System - developed by Forrest Young and Pedro Valero-Mora and available free of charge on the Internet - students can easily create fully interactive visualizations from relevant mathematical statistics, promoting perceptual and cognitive understanding of the data's story. An emphasis is placed on a paradigm for understanding data that is visual, intuitive, geometric, and active, rather than one that relies on convoluted logic, heavy mathematics, systems of algebraic equations, or passive acceptance of results.
        [目录]
        
            
                
                    | 1 | 
                    Introduction | 
                    3 | 
                
                
                    | 2 | 
                    Examples | 
                    45 | 
                
                
                    | 3 | 
                    Interfaces and environments | 
                    73 | 
                
                
                    | 4 | 
                    Tools and techniques | 
                    119 | 
                
                
                    | 5 | 
                    Seeing frequency data | 
                    145 | 
                
                
                    | 6 | 
                    Seeing univariate data | 
                    181 | 
                
                
                    | 7 | 
                    Seeing bivariate data | 
                    215 | 
                
                
                    | 8 | 
                    Seeing multivariate data | 
                    263 | 
                
                
                    | 9 | 
                    Seeing missing values | 
                    309 |