Image:Anscombe.svg

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This graphic represents the four datasets defined by Francis Anscombe for which some of the usual statistical properties (mean, variance, correlation and regression line) are the same, even though the datasets are different.

The graphic was created by User:Schutz for Wikipedia on 13 June 2006, using the R statistical project. The program that generated the graphic is given below; it is based on the example provided with the help page of the R dataset anscombe (accessible using the command help(anscombe)), and was slightly modified to improve the result. The graph was exported in postscript format, converted to SVG using the pstoedit command, and the layout was slightly modified using Inkscape before upload.

References:

• Anscombe, Francis J. (1973) Graphs in statistical analysis. American Statistician, 27, 17–21.
• R Development Core Team. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria. 2006. ISBN 3-900051-07-0. http://www.R-project.org

 postscript("anscombe.ps")
 par(las=1)
 
 
  ##-- some "magic" to do the 4 regressions in a loop:
  ff <- y ~ x
  for(i in 1:4) {
    ff[2:3] <- lapply(paste(c("y","x"), i, sep=""), as.name)
    ## or   ff[[2]] <- as.name(paste("y", i, sep=""))
    ##      ff[[3]] <- as.name(paste("x", i, sep=""))
    assign(paste("lm.",i,sep=""), lmi <- lm(ff, data= anscombe))
  }
  
  ## Now, do what you should have done in the first place: PLOTS
  op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2), mar=1.5+c(4,4,1,1), oma=c(0,0,0,0),
            lab=c(6,6,7), cex.lab=1.5, cex.axis=1.3, mgp=c(3,1,0))
  for(i in 1:4) {
    ff[2:3] <- lapply(paste(c("y","x"), i, sep=""), as.name)
    plot(ff, data =anscombe, col="red", pch=21, bg = "orange", cex = 2.5,
         xlim=c(3,19), ylim=c(3,13))
    abline(get(paste("lm.",i,sep="")), col="blue")
  }
   
  dev.off()
  

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