Abstract
This article describes a tabular display that can be used in certain circumstances to simplify a multiway frequency table while retaining information and enhancing the visual impression of aspects of the data. The display, which combines features of a frequency table and a stem-and-leaf plot, is humorously named "Table SALT" (for "Table, stem-and-leaf type"). Table SALT was devised to present work of a subcommittee of the 2006 American Statistical Association (ASA) Board of Directors that was charged with reviewing planned strategic activities of the association during 2001-2005, with emphasis on their relation to goals of the ASA strategic plan. The article discusses features of Table SALT as well as its use in the subcommittee's analysis of data.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 245-247 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | American Statistician |
Volume | 61 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1 2007 |
Keywords
- Categorical data
- Exploratory data analysis
- Multiway table
- Strategic plan
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- General Mathematics
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty