ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the second part of this book. The book presents detailed accounts of the most prominent approaches to analysing particular data set. These approaches are heavily graphical (or semigraphical) in their presentation, but are often based upon considerable calculation. The book examines the approaches that involves one environment at a time. Among these, the following involve a single attribute: semigraphical displays clarifying B-confidence and scatter of response against covariate as abscissa. Then, two or more attributes at a time: scatter plot matrices (SPLOMs) for all attributes; and profiles across attributes. The book discusses the approaches that interrelate pairs of environments: SPLOMs for all environments and one attribute. The approaches that interrelate attributes: profiles across attributes for an environment.
