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The Teacher's Corner

Eye Fitting Straight Lines

Frederick Mosteller Department of Niostatistics, School of Public Health, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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Andrew F. Siegel Department of Statistics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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Edward Trapido Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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Cleo Youtz Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
Pages 150-152 | Received 01 Jun 1980, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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Douglas J. Gillan. (2021) Fitting Regression Lines to Scatterplots: The Role of Perceptual Heuristics. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 64:1, pages 1650-1654.
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Frederick Mosteller, Andrew F. Siegel, Edward Trapido & Cleo Youtz. 2006. Exploring Data Tables, Trends, and Shapes. Exploring Data Tables, Trends, and Shapes 225 239 .
Charles D. Bailey. (2016) Empirical Statistics: V. Evidence on the Extent of the Steepness Bias in Visual Estimation of Trends. Perceptual and Motor Skills 82:3, pages 731-734.
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