Yc. Ho et Jt. Behrens, APPLICATIONS OF MULTIVARIATE VISUALIZATION TO BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCES, Behavior research methods, instruments, & computers, 27(2), 1995, pp. 264-271
The complexity of psychological science often requires the collection
and analysis of multidimensional data. Such data bring about a corresp
onding cognitive load that has led scientists to develop techniques of
scientific visualization to ease the burden. This paper provides an i
ntroduction to scientific visualization techniques, a framework for un
derstanding those techniques, and an assessment of the suitability of
this approach for psychology. The framework employed builds on the not
ion of balancing noise and smooth in statistical analysis.