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Anscombe's quartet: a standalone construct

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four small datasets with nearly identical summary statistics but very different scatterplots, used to show why data should be graphed.

In data visualization, Anscombe's quartet refers to four small datasets with nearly identical summary statistics but very different scatterplots, used to show why data should be graphed. This meaning comes from Anscombe (1973) in The American Statistician.[1]

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Anscombe, F. J. (1973). Graphs in Statistical Analysis. The American Statistician, 27(1), 17-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1973.10478966

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