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RE: st: Interesting and free book on graphical statistical methods


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Interesting and free book on graphical statistical methods
Date   Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:35:12 +0000

There are Stata packages in that territory. I can't speak for STATA, not a program I know about. 

You could get something loosely similar by using -parplot- from SSC. 

The extraordinary loop-the-loop curves with their non-data-supported artifacts are not available in -parplot-, nor will they ever be so long as its author remains sentient. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Vianney

Hi Ronan - thanks for sharing!

[ http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/papers/HDRP_2010_39.pdf ;]

I really like the ranking graphs on pg. 30 / 31 of the PDF.

Does anyone know if there is a STATA package that will create a
similar ranking visualization?


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Ronan Conroy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Graphical Statistical Methods for the Representation of the Human Development Index and its Components
> >
> > From the description:
> >
> > "..In this paper we introduce five graphical statistical methods to compare countries level of development relative to other countries and across time. For this, we use seven panels of data on the Human Development Index and its components, containing information on more than 100 countries for more than 35 years.
> >
> > We create visual comparisons of the level of development of countries relative to each other, and across time, through five different visualization techniques:
> > (i) Rankings
> > (ii) Values
> > (iii) Distributions
> > (iv) Visual metaphors (The Development Tree), and
> > (v) Networks, by introducing the concepts of Partial Ordering Networks (PON) and Development Reference Groups (DRG).
> >
> > The book also contains some well chosen historical illustrations which many of us may have seen before, but which are still classics. The author makes valliant attempts to disentangle human development index data for many countries, but the results, to my mind, still look too much like demented spaghetti. Perhaps the sheet task of representing changes in so many countries simultaneously is beyond human perception.
> >
> > Interested to hear what others think.
>
> Presumably this?
>
> http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/papers/HDRP_2010_39.pdf
>

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