Exploratory data analysis: Difference between revisions

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Many EDA ideas can be traced back to earlier authors, for example:

* [[Francis Galton]] - his emphasis on [[order-statistics]] and [[percentiles]]

* [[Arthur Bowley]] - used precursors of the [[stemplot]] and [[five-figure summary]] (Bowley actually used seven - the median, along with extremes, quartielsquartiles and ''deciles'')

* [[Andrew Ehrenberg's]] philosophy of [[Data Reduction]] (see his book of the same name).

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For details of the above, see [[John Bibby]]'s book ''HOTS: History of Teaching Statistics''.

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