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Graphing Multiple Comparisons: Some Comments on Tukey

Author(s):
Wainer, Howard
Publication Year:
1993
Report Number:
RM-93-02
Source:
ETS Research Memorandum
Document Type:
Report
Subject/Key Words:
Graphs, Multivariate Analysis, Statistics, Tukey, John W.

Abstract

Borrowing "shamelessly" from a 1940 story by Robert Heinlein, this paper discusses the problems of multivariate display, multiple comparison and their intersection, discussed in two monographs, written 40 years apart, by John Tukey. Two differences between the two monographs are considered: 1) how and when to use the dynamic capabilities of a computer; and 2) how to express more complex objective functions graphically.

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