Anscombe's Quartet

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Anscombe's Quartet
• Website: Data Skeptic
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• Published: 2015-06-12 02:00

This mini-episode discusses Anscombe's Quartet, a series of four datasets which are clearly very different but share some similar statistical properties with one another. For example, each of the four plots has the same mean and variance on both axis, as well as the same correlation coefficient, and same linear regress