Iconography of correlations

This idea is used in Gaussian graphic models for genome mapping, particularly.

The iconography of correlations first dates to 1975, applied to marine geochemistry in a 1981 thesis,[citation needed] and later in a 1982 data analysis article.

[3] Afterward, the method was applied widely in the aerospace industry[4][5] but for about fifteen years manufacturers kept it fairly confidential; generally, they preferred to not broadcast useful techniques to their competitors.

In 1997 the first company was incorporated to distribute iconography of correlations software.

[6] Since then the topic of iconography of correlations has been incorporated into some university courses, and typical topical articles' citation lists have rapidly and greatly expanded, particularly in the fields of medicine[7] and mass spectrometry.