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Chernoff Faces

  • A way to display variables on a two-dimensional surface, e.g., let x be eyebrow slant, y be eye size, z be nose length, etc.
  • The figure shows faces produced using 10 characteristics--head eccentricity, eye size, eye spacing, eye eccentricity, pupil size, eyebrow slant, nose size, mouth shape, mouth size, and mouth opening): Each assigned one of 10 possible values, generated using Mathematica (S. Dickson)
  • REFERENCE: Gonick, L. and Smith, W. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. New York: Harper Perennial, p. 212, 1993
  • Weisstein, Eric W. "Chernoff Face." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. mathworld.wolfram.com/ChernoffFace.html 


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