Friday, April 23, 2010

Star Plot

This is an example of a star plot. A stor plot is a a graphical method displaying multivariate data. Each of these data pots or stars represent a sigle observation. www.commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Star_plots

Correlation Matrix

This is an example of a correlation matrix. A correlation matrix shows the covariances between elements of a random vector. www.livestockgenomics.csiro.au/Genome_to_Phenome/

Windrose

This is an example of a windrose graph. This graph shows representations of wind speeds and directions in a windrose multiplied by their percentage of concurrance. www.lion.cs.uiuc.edu/projects/wsn_ornl.html

Climograph

Climograph is a graphical representation of the basic climatic parameters, that is mostly average temperature and precipitation, at a certain location. it is used for a quick-view of the climate of a location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climograph

Population Profile

This is a example of a population profile that compares age class to percentage population. This graph was done to show the population growth curve for Mobile County in 1998. www.camelia.shc.edu/.../statisticassign.htm

Triangular plot


A triangular plot, also known as a ternary plot, is a barycentric plot on three variable which sum to a constant. It graphically depicts the ratios of the three variables as positions in an equilateral triangle.

Scatter Plot

This is an example of a scatter plot, the individual blue dots show the results of each sample. This study compared the age of the husband compared to the age of the wife. www.mzandee.net/.../chapter4/pearson.html