statistics

Anscombe's quartet

Four datasets with identical statistics but very different shapes.

quartet d'Anscombe

Quatre jeux de données de mêmes statistiques mais de formes très différentes.

Classification

statistics
the name evokes: eponym

Attestation

French term: Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021

Sources (7)

1 occurrence in the corpus

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/anscombe-quartet.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. Anscombe's quartet. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/anscombe-quartet.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-anscombe-quartet,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {Anscombe's quartet},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/anscombe-quartet.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.