Statistics & Graphics: Graphics Tools

Scatter Diagrams

• Line styles
• Specify ranges on axes
• Titles and labels
• Include linear regression line

This is a plot of gasoline expenditure against per capita income for the U.S. economy from 1953 - 2004, with the linear regression plotted with the scatter

Histograms

• Discrete or continuous data
• Specify bins, proportions or intervals
• Stratify by group
• Multiple simultaneous histograms

Graphical Displays

• Kernel density plot
• Matrix of scatter plots
• Line plots for time series
• Multiple time series plots
• Box and whisker plots
• Residual plots (against observation, time or other variables)
• User specified function plots
• Plot predictions from time series models
• Normal quantile plots
• Survival and hazard function plots
• Bubble plots
• ROC curve for binary choice models