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Exploratory data analysis for discrete data

I am using a probit and a logit model for obtaining the choice probabilities of some data. What kind of plots can be useful to conduct a exploratory data analysis for these data? Here is the ...
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What are some good exploratory analysis and diagnostic plots for count data?

Does anyone know of good reference material on exploratory analysis and diagnostic plots for count data?
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Panel-data exploratory data analysis

I have a dataset for around 40k firms over fiscal years 1950-2011 with about 430k firm-years. If I'm not mistaken I have panel-data. In addition, the firms are nested within 9 industries. I created a ...
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R package for visualizing and exploring large datasets

I recently read about a package, which I believe had a name like "tabstat" or "tablestats" which produced a really useful plot of univariate distributions of multiple variables for large datasets. I ...
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How to draw a side-by-side plot mentioned in “Graphical Display as an Aid to Analysis”

Emerson, J. D. (1991) Graphical Display as an Aid to Analysis, in Fundamentals of Exploratory Analysis of Variance (eds D. C. Hoaglin, F. Mosteller and J. W. Tukey), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ...
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Panel data descriptives, plots and 'feel for the data'

Allright, so I have a dataset for around 40k firms over fiscal years 1950-2011 with about 430k firm-years. If I'm not mistaken I have panel data. I created a unique identifier ...
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Modern successor to Exploratory Data Analysis by Tukey?

I've been reading Tukey's book "Exploratory Data Analysis". Being written in 1977, the book emphasizes paper/pencil methods. Is there a more 'modern' successor which takes into account that we can ...
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First quick glance at a dataset

Please pardon my ignorance, but... I keep finding myself in a situation, where I'm faced with a bunch of new data I managed to find. This data usually looks something like this: ...
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Which type of regression analysis should I use for consumption pattern data?

I conducted a survey asking people of various income groups about their annual expenditure under various consumption brackets such as food, clothing, housing etc. I then calculated the amount spent by ...
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R package for identifying relationships between variables

Is there an R package that I can use to explore whether there exist relationships between variables? Typically when I am looking for patterns I look at correlations, and then a facet plot. Then I ...
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A good way to show lots of data graphically

I'm working on a project that involves 14 variables and 345,000 observations for housing data (things like year built, square footage, price sold, county of residence, etc). I'm concerned with trying ...