I was thinking in terms of "shared variance" where it is worthless.
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote: > > > Elliot Cramer wrote: > > > > wuzzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : Is it possible to draw a venn diagram with more than 3 vars? > > : I've tried and it seems impossible to me: > > > > Actually Venn diagrams with 3 variables are worthless so why bother about > > 4 > > "Worthless?" > > Venn diagrams give an excellent way of illustrating > inclusion-exclusion counting, some Boolean identities, and other > "discrete-math" sorts of thing. There are things they don't do well, > but that is true for every technique. > > -Robert Dawson > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
