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William Playfair

  • Spence I
  • Wainer H
Springer New York, (2001), 105-110
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_21
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Abstract

William Playfair, engineer, political economist and scoundrel, was the most important developer of statistical graphics. In the two centuries since, there has been no appreciable improvement on his basic designs.

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Spence, I., & Wainer, H. (2001). William Playfair. In Statisticians of the Centuries (pp. 105–110). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_21

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