A Graphical Display of Large Correlation Matrices

1996/05/01 by D. J. Murdoch, D. Murdoch, E. D. Chow +1 · 161 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Algorithm #Computational statistics #Computer graphics (images) #Computer science #Data science #Engineering #Graphics #Heading (navigation) #Machine learning #Neural Networks and Applications #Operating system #Programming language #Section (typography) #Simple (philosophy) #Software #Statistical graphics #Statistical software #Theoretical computer science

paper · doi:10.1080/00031305.1996.10474371

published in The American Statistician 50(2), 178-180 (Taylor & Francis)

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Abstract

This department includes the two sections New Development in Statistical Computing and Statistical Computing Software Reviews; suitable contents for each of these sections are described under the respective section heading. Articles submitted for the department, outside the two sections, should not be highly technical and should be relevant to the teaching or practice of statistical computing. Large correlation matrices are hard to look at. In this article we present correlations as elliptical glyphs for a simple intuitive display of large matrices.

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