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  • Graph-Theoretic Scagnostics / Scatterplot Diagnostics for Pattern Recognition in STATA

    Dear list,

    I have a collection of hundreds of 2d scatterplots. In fact, I don't have actual graphics, but I have hundreds of (x,y) planes. I would like to use graph-theoretic diagnostics to detect abnormalities or patterns within each x,y plane. The method I would like to use was introduced by John and Paul Tukey in the 1990s, who achieve my objective through a small number of measures. Dang and Wilkinson (see http://www.cs.uic.edu/~tdang/file/Ti...NCIjournal.pdf) describe in an excellent fashion on how one can use these so-called "Scagnostics" to explore abnormalities in huge amounts of (x,y) planes. Finally, Wilkinson, Anand, and Grossman [1] provide a detailed description on the idea of graph-theoretic scagnostics. These scagnostics or graph-theoretic measures are exactly what I need.

    More specifically, Wilkinson et al. suggest to compute the following measures for each of my (x,y) planes: Outlying, Skewed, Clumpy, Sparse, Striated, Convex, Skinny, Stringy, Monotonic. They describe each of these "scagnostics" in their paper. I would like to compute each and every one of these measures, for hundreds of (x,y) planes. I do not need my result in graphs, rather I need the actual numeric measures (scagnostics).

    However, before I try to come up with efficient ways on computing each metric, does anyone know of a user-written program that does what I'm looking for?

    Thank you very much for your help.

    [1] Wilkinson, Leland, Anushka Anand, and Robert L. Grossman. "Graph-Theoretic Scagnostics." INFOVIS. Vol. 5. 2005.
    Last edited by tommedema; 26 Aug 2014, 18:33.

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    Is there anything I can do to give this question more attention? It has been over a week now and still no replies

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    • #3
      You just did what you can by "bumping" it to the top of the list (and doing that is fair play).

      If your name is "Tom Medema" please re-register as such. Some people give less attention to posts that don't (apparently) show full real names.

      I didn't answer it because I didn't know of any such programs. It seems no-one else does either. See also http://www.statalist.org/forums/help Section 17. And keep on with Section 18.

      Note there is absolutely no rule that a question must be answered by somebody.
      Last edited by Nick Cox; 04 Sep 2014, 01:39.

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