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Anscombe's quartet

Summary

Anscombe's quartet ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (316 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Anscombe's quartet is credited with the discovery of Frank Anscombe[2].
  • Anscombe's quartet's image is recorded as Anscombe.svg[3].
  • Frank Anscombe is named after Anscombe's quartet[4].
  • Anscombe's quartet's subclass of is recorded as data set[5].
  • Anscombe's quartet's Commons category is recorded as Anscombe's quartet[6].
  • Anscombe's quartet's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02pz_7g[7].
  • Anscombe's quartet's facet of is recorded as descriptive statistics[8].
  • Anscombe's quartet's described by source is recorded as Graphs in Statistical Analysis[9].
  • Anscombe's quartet's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 120182784[10].

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Works and Contributions

Anscombe's quartet is credited with the discovery of Frank Anscombe[2].

Why It Matters

Anscombe's quartet ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (316 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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