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In this chapter we consider mosaicplots, which were introduced by Hartigan and Kleiner (1981) as a way of visualizing contingency tables. Named “mosaicplots” due to their resemblance to the art form, they consist of groups of rectangles that represent the cells in a contingency table. Both the sizes and the positions of the rectangles are relevant to mosaicplot interpretation, making them one of the more advanced plots around.With a little practice they can become an invaluable tool in the representation and exploration of multivariate categorical data.
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Hofmann, H. (2008). Mosaic Plots and Their Variants. In: Handbook of Data Visualization. Springer Handbooks Comp.Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33037-0_24
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